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Shadow People

Eugene Michaels

I walk among the shadows,
I feel nothing,
I am numb

I can see beyond the shadows,
I see nothing,
I am numb

I can hear beyond the shadows,
I hear nothing
I am numb

When you walk among the shadows,
You'll feel nothing,
You'll be numb
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Submitted by MichaelEugeneCantrall on May 11, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abC abC abC abc
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 220
Words 47
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3
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Eugene Michaels

A native of Northern California, the poet Michael Eugene Cantrall is a graduate of Stanford University (M.A. & B.A. in philosophy) and Shasta Community College (A.A. in Journalism). Michael pens poems while watching the deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, black bear, and the occasional mountain lion scamper around the Sierra foothills. more…

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