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<p>Several eyes beam their lights on me and lo a cast.</p>
<p>It’s my look-alike, but yet so dark and doesn’t last.<br>
It gives me several looks, of some I know, like my past.<br>
Also, of some that hurts, like I’m no good or an outcast.</p>
<p>It attaches itself to my feet while I walk.<br>
So long as the eyes beam it would stalk.<br>
Are you me? I ask, but it wouldn’t talk.<br>
It shrinks me at times and at others, methinks I’m a hulk.</p>
<p>We have similar features and semblance,<br>
And we make same twists and turns while we dance,<br>
When the eyes don’t beam, I bemoan its disappearance;<br>
because I do remain but unaware of my relevance.</p>
<p>It could possibly be faster than I think.<br>
Maybe it moves only when my eyes blink.<br>
Someday I stretched my hands to offer a drink.<br>
But it wouldn’t face me and that made my heart sink.</p>
<p>Was on a lane one chilly night where eye beams were four directional.<br>
Staring at the floor, I pondered ‘which one was my original?’<br>
Four casts on the floor; which of them was to me cardinal?<br>
I sure knew I was lawful, but all four casted a criminal.</p>
<p>Saddened and overwhelmed, I scurried to flee the eyes into the dark.<br>
The only place I knew was where the casts doth existence lack.<br>
Away from the eyes, I felt much safer in the chancy black.<br>
Fell asleep in the cold night with darkness as my ark.</p>
<p>The sun rays had fought my eyes and eventually won<br>
I stretched my weary body to embrace the airy dawn<br>
The cast! The cast! Single and petite, must be the sun.<br>
I was used to the sun’s cast of me, so my fears were gone.</p>
<p>I saw I was alone and thirsty in some nearby village,<br>
blessed with a flowery lonely Rock of ceaseless spillage.<br>
I surged to drink and also to relish the fragrance of fresh sage.<br>
Lo, right before my eyes as I scooped – lay my true image.</p>
<p>Was this true? Could this be truly what I looked like?<br>
Beautiful, spotless, with a price unaffordable yet ever on the hike?<br>
The eye beams always casted me a no-good, like a rounded spike.<br>
Awed, I stood beholding the me I prized and then; like a lightning strike.</p>
<p>I have to leave this Rock! This village! This instant!!<br>
Too many unattended issues and clients lie distant.<br>
I galloped with hurry, must trade for I was a busy merchant.<br>
Lo, my casts returned in different forms, none to me was pleasant.</p>
<p>Though I made some money, it never satisfied.<br>
There was so much to do with it, my needs never died.<br>
O! At that Rock I felt no need and thought my heart had lied –<br>
the cast of the Rock did swallow my cast, so embittered I cried.</p>
<p>Shall I return for just a look or even to abide?<br>
The houses built, the clients won, the horses that I ride.<br>
From whence shall I flee from the eyes and my casts forever hide?<br>
The same village where I own nothing but the Rock and its ceaseless tide.</p>
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