Shadows are a part of our existence. They nurture us, teach us and stay with us till we last, like past ....
The Shadow
We march into the future,
Venturing through the present,
Leaving behind everything on the way –
Moment after moment, day after day.
All the time during this journey,
We are ensued by the Shadow of Past.
Step by step, as we move ahead,
It remains with us, till we last.
- Vanita Thakkar (10.07.1988)
This is another old poem of mine. I wrote it as a higher secondary student, contemplating on the flow of time. Future moves from present to past. What we are and what we do in the present becomes past and leads us to future.
I had written two poems on similar lines of thoughts much later, on HubPages, inspired by Brenda Arledge's word prompt - Tomorrow. The link to those poems is ....
https://vanitathakkar.blogspot.com/2026/02/blog-post.html
