Shadows, Light And Clouds

We play hide and seek worst of all From ourselves: see the ancient summers Intaglio of shadow and light, cloud and rain Even if every droning locust were replaced By a cry of here once was I; there I was going by I can't catch up anymore- The game has gone on too long The seasons are folding in on each other I see myself climbing over rocks, chasing rainbows Looking up to catch a glimpse, behind the clouds Disappearing sun of childhood, and now middle age comes; Hurrying around a bend, ahead lies the river of slow forgetting It's liquid silver light flowing moonlit shadows It will carry me for miles before I come back to myself again- Coming back to something I never really knew Turn your head one degree and it's different The angle lets light in from a thousand possible directions Careful or you won't recognize anyone again You could be lost for eons, shadowed by dissolution We play hide and seek in our original self containment: The game life invented for us- Until the world hides us forever again under it's clouded wing And we dissolve back in solution Like fine shadowed sediment suspended in a little sea A forever sea that courses along singing With a musical little voice, of all that's left of us We are life's living memory of itself, always in the forgetting That it's a game and we're just the indulgence Of a sometimes summer world that likes playing With shadows, light and clouds.