The sun has just fallen

darkness is calling

Stuck inside all day

I need to stretch my legs

I’m on one side of the tracks

I need to get to the other

I’m not sure which one is wrong

I enter a pedestrian tunnel

I pass a light fixed to the corner

of the ceiling and the wall

My shadow races to catch and then pass me

but then vanishes just out of reach

as I near the next lamp

The race renews

at each lighted placement

A dance with my shadow

a march against my own darkness

lost to the light

or my movement

I pass the last light fixture

and my shadow races onward

off into the night

with me chasing from behind