Shadow
Curled in the corner of a shelter
From light rain
Cold wind
Inhaling hot ashes
Poison of her bones
Alone

Shadow
Hunched out of sight
Away from public eye
Light creeps
Across billows of smoke
To the pupil of her eye
Where she finds hope
Alone

Shadow
Old
The soul of a shadow
Takes no form
Floats with the smoke
From burning lies
Exhaled in dull amusement
Alone