!Akin to Me is the Shadow

Written by the Moroccan poet: Mohammed el-Laggafi
شبيهي الظل
بقلم الشاعر محمد اللغافي من المغرب

Is it necessary

?I become like you

I’m trying to borrow a nickname

Seek shelter from you

!O my shadow

Akin to me…in schism

I train myself

Away

I’m running from you…without you

Digging trenches

For an army

Believing to revive the dead

As such

I’m lagging behind my body parts

Outside my mummy

A replica of my voice

Rapid in agitation

Betting to be

Like you

Is it…necessary

?I become like you

The present eroding before my eyes

So the past

.And my face gray as it is