In the night they searched For their surroundings to sustain them For their choices to be enough For their lives to have meaning
One roamed the nights here The other roamed its home there Searching through shadows Trying in vain To live up to the task of living
Together only in dreams Wild and free Unseen by those who did not matter Noticed only by those Whose time leached into the shadows
And in the night they searched To be fulfilled both within and without Left hungry wrapped in their thoughtful empty choices Starved in darkness yearning to be sated Their bright colors hued gray in the night
Passing, never having been sated Spirits rose and were united at last Finding in death what they lost among the living Never to be seen but in the shadows of yesterday