J H Martin is from London, England but has no fixed abode. His writing has appeared in a number of places in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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Shadow – Form
Invisible
To earth and sky
Lit up by
Both sun and moon
Beyond
These spheres of frost
And these worlds of dew
I wander with you –
My only friend
For
Neither me
Myself nor you
Have the trappings of a life
The key to some property
Or to some other time and place
Which will not flourish
Only to then swiftly decay
Yes
Both you and I
May be poor in wisdom
But I am not nor was I ever
In doubt of one thing
We come alone and we leave alone
Joined by the ignorance
Of our one truth and one truth alone
My shadow is form and my form is shadow
There is nothing else
For either of us to assert or to posit
Just as there is no other nature
For us to ever know or to find
Beneath that blue sky
Beyond this infinity of worlds