Dark friend and dark fiend

A companion yet a petulant foe

Trailing the edge of one’s psyche with duplicated self

The ego’s other

Confined to primitive impulse

Too unsophisticated for refined attention

A brutish form hiding behind the intellect

Yet as true as form itself

It embodies the other side of self

A reservoir of raw emotive energy

Whispering loud intentions

Crying foul wisdom

And formless truths.

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The shadow follows

Tagging along one’s coattails

In the footsteps of one’s path

Dancing along with the body’s rhythm

In two dimensional space

Shameless secret in broad daylight

A silent weightless burden

Of oneself which in itself is the self

Detached and painted on bare earth

As a reminder of the naked human essence

Beneath conscious reasoning.