Don't touch my shadow

Whatever you do
Don't touch my shadow

Stay as far as you can't touch it
You can't touch me by surprise
I am a Brahman to you

The shadow is the fringe
The last irrepressible expression
The light void of colors

Don't walk through it
Don't step in it
Don't let yourself join it
Don't touch my shadow

I'll start as if you'd walked over my grave
Wherever it may be
My ears will whistle
And I'll blink upside down
Shivering and stabbed
Don't touch my shadow

And at night when all shadows merge
Fragments of bodies can yet be cast
Grotesquely disfigured,
Leaping like living flames
And so the warning remains -
Spread far and wide

Don’t touch my shadow
Breathe your own air
Unless you bring me the ambrosia of old
Unless you offer peace and play
Unless you flow to me
In perfect tenderness
You must stand by yourselves
Facing the West in you
As must all astral bodies

Don't offer me the grey where all can mingle
The sweat of dirty auras
The lonely dream lacerated by many
The livid souls starved for color
Find stark contrast, the edge of a cliff
And unforgiving light
Stay away, don't touch, don't nudge
Don't you dare scare me into shrinking










So I'm hard on the inside
hard and pure it is now said
After wearing rawness on my sleeve for years
A suit of pain and cries for all to see
I put away childish hooks and tricks
Away for keen eyes to perceive
I am now too hard - but where were you for years?
I lack cuteness and frailty
Such feminine qualities
Your warped reasonings would have me believe I am a man
Yet I always meet stronger than me
And strive yet again
Pain was now far behind
And I rejoiced, thinking I'd finally meet the normal people
But it seems I went way past the line
Early or late, I'll never know
Maybe just timeless, timestill