FOR Promptly Poetry Challenge (2023-24)

SHADOW

The shadow of past poems
Falls upon this one
I don't feel like writing it
I feel as if I'm done

I've written two poems already
With the theme 'shadow'
One for a contest
One to help when I was feeling low

Shadow implies light blocked out
I guess it could refer to a writer
Whose muse is taking a nap
Whose typing hands grow tighter

Shadows big, shadows small
Shadows short, shadows tall
Shadows in front, shadows behind
Shadows cruel, shadows kind

Shadows with you all the time
Echoing actions in mime
Shadows above, shadows below
shadows shrink, shadows grow

It's so ironic, the lack of light
Letting the imagination take flight
A patch of dark giving a spark
For prose or poetry, wistful or stark

It's just something caused by physics
Why does it inspire so many lyrics?
Well, romance is a chemistry
And its inspiration is no mystery!