Dust and Shadow

Ethereal and all consuming, that of a dream

A dream of dust and nothing more

Dust, tangible, simple, warm

Build your dream with dust, they fear the shade

The shade that follows you, them

A shadow, engrossing, terrible, and ethereal

The shadow is cold, dark, a child of the dust

Say you do not fear the shade, say that as dust

Choke on the warm embrace of it and let the shade extinguish in the heat

Taste the dust, without it the shade is no more

Shade, contrasting, black behind the

dust

An abyss of ash with no shade, nothing and everything but cold

Say the dust is impure, say that as shade

Build a dream with shade, watch it collapse

Without the shade the dust cannot exist

They want all dust and no shade, they wish for shadow and no dust

This will always remain a dream for them

A dream of dust and nothing more