Shadows

Shadows

Lately I haven’t met my shadow

Most of the times I look at the sky

With hope

From wherever I sit

The ceiling is not transparent

Yet I look above

Hoping a sky would appear

In my field of view

And even if I look below

There is nothing to see

Yesteryear’s filament lamps have gone

Emptying the houses of their shadows

With it

Anyways most of the times I am indoors

And when I go out during the day

I look at buildings

New old and those being build

And watch people walking on streets

Sometimes at night the streetlights flicker

With moon in the sky

Shadows lunge out from my feet

Though don’t remember noticing

The one who played with the shadows

Has long gone

Replaced by an all knowing being

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar