Shadow

I shall grow out of the ground at your feet
like a shadow at sunrise.
I shall protect your young growing grass
from the searing of the scorching sun.
I shall keep your children cool in my shade
and I will grow only outwards from you.

Without you I will fade into dull greyness
grow hazy, indistinct at my edges, lost,
invisible when your clouds cover up the sun.
Without you and the sunlight, I am nothing
I disappear when you walk into the shade.