SHADOWY LIFE

SHADOWY LIFE

Who is this ?
I asked

My shadow,
He replied

I don’t exist
Am like a ghost

Can see you
But you can’t

Is deliberate
I'm shadowy

If I surface
Will be deported
Humiliated & tortured

Shadowy life
Suits me
For nothing
Can hurt me

Had enough

Appealed to
The authorities
Human rights
Organisations

said
Their hands
Are tied

Big nations
Have locked
Horns

Pretending
To protest
About my life
My shadowy life

But when it is
Crunch time
Find excuses
Telling me
It is not yet time

Don’t exist
Am like a ghost
Only surface
To sleep and eat