The body once asked its shadow, saying,

“Recently you were walking on and now

Just sitting and now you have risen up. . .

How is it that you’re so without stability?”

In no time the shadow replied, “I wait for

To do what I do, and you, on whom I wait,

I understand, wait further on something else

To do as that another does. So, my waiting,

Is it for the scale of you, my body-master,

Or that of something else behind your action?

Following you, or do not do any other thing

Right after the object of your imitation?

Now you tell me, who truly is the shadow

But who is the shade of the shadow

Also known as the term 'penumbra?'”