The need To know the day The hour, the frame The place That we shall meet In the dark of my own voice, un answered The line that lies before me leads One step unto the next, we take For granted, we shall see The sun rise on all our failures Cas anew with every chance assumed What comes? what may What may not always lie in wait The void replaced by shadow, cast By time, denied in the abstract It is all ways There is always more I look to the sky And it appears before me, cold Before my time, it comes, to bring The end to here, to now Severing both star and light The line becomes the blade To meet and to succumb to fate "I am a shadow, among shadows."