#shadows cast

Turn to the left, turn to the right. There are faces there on either side. Smiling faces of those you've known all your life. They want to help you, they want to love you, they want to hold you up before you fall, yet you want nothing to do with any of it. As the night falls on your existence, your shadow now your only friend because it can't leave. Turns around you day after day as if it were a clock, just waiting for you to hear the chime. Long then short then non existent at noon, shows you the path that you're on. You want to see faces of those who don't love you, who don't care, that want you to fall for you know in them there is no love, expectations, demands to do better or more than what you've been doing. There are no judgments, requirements, conditions etc... No one realizes that we don't need the voices of others to come down on us when we fall, we are our own worst critics. So cast your shadow where ever it may fall, take the path that's pointed out to you; turn to the left, turn to the right. The only one who can hear the chimes I time is you.

image: Embracing Your Shadow-Self | EVERYTHiNG SOULFuL

East to West, Light and Shadow

Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)

Explanation: On this November morning an old crescent Moon and morning star rise just before the Sun in a wide panoramic skyscape from Kenya's Amboseli National Park. Still below the limbs of an acacia tree and the eastern horizon, the Sun's position is easy to find though. It's marked at the left by the subtle convergence of light and shadow in the dawn sky. Known as crepuscular rays, the warm-colored rays of sunlight are outlined by shadows cast by unseen clouds near the horizon. Arcing above the profile of Mount Kilimanjaro, toward the right the rays of light and shadow converge at the western horizon. There known as anti-crepuscular rays, they indicate the point opposite the rising sun. The cloud shadows are very nearly parallel, but converge toward the distant horizons because of perspective.