shadow

Here is a poem that I created based on a photograph of a shadow from a nuclear bomb at Hiroshima:

I am frozen in time,

Secured by the light

Blotted by the soot,

And gone by night

I am lost from reality,

I've escaped from life

Devoured by a gruesome death,

Fueled by international strife

I am still in the shadows,

I am unable to grow

This is no mortal grave,

On this wall, my death shows