SOMETIMES THAT'S ALL WE SEE ON THIS SIDE. BUT THINK ABOUT IT; SUPPOSE THAT'S ALL THERE IS ON THIS SIDE? SUPPOSE WE'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE CONTENTED HERE, SUPPOSE OUR REWARD IS NOT HERE AT ALL, BUT...ON THE 'OTHER' SIDE? I THINK IF WE KEEP THIS IN MIND, IT STRENGTHENS US BECAUSE WE REALIZE...THIS IS NOT OUR HOME, WE'RE ON OUR WAY HOME... WHERE 'EVERYTHING' IS CRYSTAL CLEAR...FOREVER. I KNOW, I WENT THERE. BUT I HEARD A SERMON ON THIS ONCE JANE SO YOU KNOW I COULD NOT RESIST AND LET ME TELL YOU...THE SAINTS TORE THAT CHURCH UP THAT SUNDAY!!! AMEN. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS SHARING WHICH PUT A 'NOSTALGIA GRIP' ON ME(SMILE). LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

You've penned a unique array of derivatives, i.e., shadows as layers of imagination and fear. Yes, we all have our personal shadows that often play the hide and seek game. Appreciated the sense of consciousness streaming.

Intriguing write. For me, it's not smoke and shadows, just a grey, cloudy, and dull mind.

Hah! And its no laughing matter! No, none at all. My memory is very bad, and that ain't good. Hang in dere and know you have company

Lovely, especially the last stanza. Emotions we all feel as poets but haven't expressed like this.

ominous shadowy lurking lingering waiting

I feel that way sometimes. Thoughts swirl around inside my head that it's difficult to find the correct words.