I see my shadow lengthen
With the ebbing of the day
I feel it suck up all the sadness
From the bowels of the earth 
With its purple, glistening hoard 
Of melancholia and hopelessness
I move ceaselessly, restlessly 
I will my never-stopping feet 
To sever the tortured bond 
That my swelling shade has formed
With the darkening world around 
But my shadow just spreads out
Ever further on the ground
It suckles at night’s dreary breast 
Absorbing all her suffering
So that nothing should remain 
In earth’s mighty store of pain 
With its ravening tentacles 
My twilight shadow reaches in
Never faltering in its aim
It will not stop it will not rest 
Until it has gorged itself
On a sorrow that is infinite 
It’s bloated edges 
Endlessly dredge
The gloom from earth’s wounded veins 
My shadow ripples and it writhes 
Waning only when daylight 
Breaks the tragic coupling
Of the shades and sadness of nighttime.