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Shadow

 

A shadow

illusionary

a shadow

real

a shadow

having been inscribed                                                                       

on the stone

so many years

a shadow

for sorrow

a shadow

for wailing

 

it is

the reality

radiated on the stone steps

Hiroshima

August 6th

the 20th year of Showa

 

surely it was alive

laughed

wept

in the morning

it got up

at night

it went to bed

just like us

 

but

it recorded

the instant

forever

to us

the shadow outlined

once it was a human

it should have been so

 

numberless people gone vanished

not leaving

even shadows