• If it won't leave me alone it's no surprise that I'm shrill
    but to no avail, my shadow follows me still.
    When sunlight reveals my frown, that only fills it with glee.
    Yet on a moonlit night it never fails to locate me.
    Until my shadow appears the only thing that is true
    appearing in a flash on any wall within view.
    But increasingly I realise that it is pleasing after all
    to have such a constant companion, then I recall
    that the only times my shadow has left me alone
    have been the darkest times that I have known.
    And so it fills me with delight to have my shadow about
    for it completes my world, without a doubt.