Poetry for The Shadow

"Within The Shadows" by Don Iannone

Something wild rages
just out of reach of the sun’s touch
and beyond the moon’s forever lost call
An unspeakable wildness somehow we know

And down below, and beyond
the incarnate always walk alone, and dance
at midnight with the eternal flame
extinguishing the inner darkness

And in those shadows
the empty hollows fill with twilight’s wonders
and silence clings to our soul
like dreams to our first waking breath

And should danger appear, remember:
He that dwelleth in the secret place
of the most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty


This poem explains what the shadow is and how it affects the hero. In the first stanza where it says, " An unspeakable wildness somehow we know," it describes how the hero understands, somehow, that the shadow is part of him, but doesn't know how he knows. this poem also describes how the hero must defeat the shadow in the second stanza, ". . . extinguishing the inner darkness."