We Should Not Embrace
By Suzanne Glade
Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025
Self-doubt casts long shadows in front of me
I never walk past them.
I fear for you
when we embrace casting a single shadow.
I never walk past them.
I fear for you
when we embrace casting a single shadow.
I never walk past them,
painful memories embossed on our future.
We embrace casting a single shadow
stretching to an unreachable horizon.
painful memories embossed on our future.
We embrace casting a single shadow
stretching to an unreachable horizon.
Painful memories embossed on our future
like a chaotic constellation on fabric
stretching to an unreachable horizon
as I anchor you here in the present.
like a chaotic constellation on fabric
stretching to an unreachable horizon
as I anchor you here in the present.
Like a chaotic constellation on fabric
self-doubt casts long shadows in front of me.
As I anchor you here in the present
I fear for you.
self-doubt casts long shadows in front of me.
As I anchor you here in the present
I fear for you.
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Suzanne Glade is a poet living in an attorney’s body in Chicago – waiting to be set free. Suzanne’s work has appeared in Synkroniciti Magazine, Locust Shells Journal, The Fringe 999 Poetry Forum, All Else Pales 2 Anthology A Song, Emerging/ Poems About Our Earth, For A Better World and elsewhere. She is also a reader for Ex Ophidia Press.
Author’s Note:I have always been fascinated by shadows, how they accompany you on walks, change the temperature of the air, spoil or absolutely enhance a photo. I also enjoy trying to work within a specific form. The pantoum allows a line to migrate and change its meaning from one stanza to the next. This poem was born from the first two lines and expresses how we project our insecurities on those we want to hold close. |
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