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REQUIEM FOR A SHADOW<br />
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There was a time I dreamed a dream<br />
A dream of life a new,<br />
A shadow danced beneath my feet<br />
Amid the morning dew.<br />
And from that shadow came another,<br />
Waking from its shadow slumber,<br />
And the shadows began to wonder<br />
Where do we belong?<br />
In the forest? In the trees?<br />
With the beetles or the bees?<br />
The glanced around from place to place<br />
Looking, searching for a face<br />
A face to call their very own.<br />
For they were shadows, only forms.<br />
They could not smile, could not cry,<br />
Could not live and could not die.<br />
Only waver in the light<br />
And when the sky grew dim,<br />
The shadows would only disappear<br />
And never be seen again.<br />
Do you remember when they danced?<br />
In the wind and in the rain?<br />
You watched them play beneath your feet<br />
Through splintered window pane.<br />
The shadow lifted from the ground,<br />
Without sight and without sound.<br />
He told his friends to gather round<br />
And listen closely here.<br />
"Do you want to be forgotten?<br />
In this world so sick and rotten?<br />
Every person merely thought<br />
To bring all the shadows down.<br />
Down down bring us down,<br />
Never heard and never seen.<br />
Only dancing on occasion<br />
When a child dares to dream."<br />
The shadows all cried out in anger<br />
Roaring, rearing in the sky.<br />
As their many lives endanger<br />
An existence made of lies.<br />
They stormed the forests homes and streets,<br />
Killing all gazed in their wake.<br />
As sure, as steady as one's heart beats<br />
The earth beneath them quakes and shakes.<br />
The people screamed and pointed guns,<br />
But shots don't work on shadow men.<br />
They are merely shadow people,<br />
Feeding on the fears of them.<br />
The highest power looked upon<br />
The battle raging in the dawn<br />
And cast a night upon the land<br />
So that the shadows in the sand,<br />
Melted in surrounded darkness<br />
And became no more.<br />
Their voices are now a quiet echo,<br />
of their cries that pierced the night.<br />
The echoes cry in quiet numbers<br />
Far away and out of sight.<br />
Voices that rant, voices that rave<br />
All they wanted was to be free.<br />
But freedom came at dire price,<br />
It led them to a shadow grave.<br />
But I remember the shadow men,<br />
And the plight they vainly fought,<br />
How they wanted to be remembered.<br />
I have not forgot.<br />
Though days may pass and years and weeks<br />
The memory of them lasts and lasts,<br />
Though all the people hide behind<br />
Their red blood stained and broken masks.<br />
They refuse to come out to the light<br />
And dance with shadows born anew,<br />
Instead they run without a fight,<br />
And prefer to hide in the night,<br />
Where the shadows cannot be,<br />
Cannot exist and cannot see.<br />
Their minds are closed and locked like doors<br />
And darkness seeped into their cores. <br />
But I will dance with shadow men,<br />
As I did upon a dream,<br />
On that day when all were lost.<br />
And playful shadows ceased to be.<br />
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