In Shadow and Light

Raw wounds in bitter light

Seem to be the truth in sight.

But where does the healing end?

In pain or in mend ?

‘Neutralize the sorrow

With a gentle hose of tomorrow’,

Says the heart in fear

Of seeing the truth so near.

It blatantly lies

Like the moon in sunshine

That  stays there, unaware

Of its past night

When the dark danced

With the  moonbeams

In a quiet wrestle

Of true and false.

‘Where is the truth?’

Cries out the heart,

‘In what dark alley,

In what base light,

Do I see, the truth in sight?’

But I do not trust the silly whims of life,

mere play of shadow and light,

one day it will surely deceive me,

and all lights will go out.

I will laugh at myself

At the whole life I led,

In the play of shadow and light.