Where Shadows Cast Light

 Poetry: Literary Liberation: Where Shadows Cast Light by Ruben Camp White

Flesh to flesh, bone to bone,

Yet hearts divide where hands still hold.

Mind to mind, soul to soul,

We speak in silence, louder than thunder’s roll.

The wise man drinks from rivers dry,

and thirsts for water that cannot die.

The ignorant sleeps with open eyes,

and dreams the truth he won’t recognize.

A child once crawled toward tomorrow’s dawn,

but man now crawls to yesterday’s song.

He builds his wings, yet’s scared to fly,

for freedom burns where fears reside.

The unseen world is where we’re found,

its chains are thoughts, not iron bound.

We breathe the air that doubts are made,

still call it hope when hearts decay.

Is joy illusion, or pain the real?

Is stillness movement we just can’t feel?

Is silence the voice that prayers conceal?

Is love the wound that time won’t heal?

O brother of bone, O sister of mind,

you are the mirror the blind can find.

For every despair is a seed of birth,

and every broken heart births earth.

If winter chills, then warmth must learn,

that cold is the reason fires burn.

So crawl, if crawling leads to climb,

the mountain waits for every spine.

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