Shadows... Poem by John Ugolo Umah

Let me scribble it out
from my mind even though
it has been unwanted still
unabated by drool faces

that shadows are who we are
for we all live as one that goes
every where with you as a ghost
uncoloured shadows like black

we can only abdicate in death
as the shadow return to casket
of box still uncoloured black
the faithful shadow always

for those black past shadows
are abhor and abhorrent
it was aberrant and aberration
of norm from truth to sin

those abducted shadows
that leave us not but stay
in uncoloured body
of every existence to be

if man is not far from breath
then man must be a shadow
may be of death or of life
that we may remain shadows...