is this love a shadow of love in union like the moon in the mid morning sky half covered by the earth the piecing blue the illusion of non existence the other half lending its face to the autumn sun yet i know the moon is whole my memory placing its roundness in the minds eye like the love of the one sometimes it lies in the shadows waiting for the light to fall reveal the splendour to unite the two halves as the shadows recede love is here love is there waiting hiding behind and in the shadows made by ourselves we are never without only with union in love love in union