Colin F. Jones

TO YOURSELF BE TRUE

Your shadow
can devour you
faster than a spirit,
can vanish.

Bathed in your
own shadow,
conceit dims
your view
that beyond
self concern
you cannot learn;
thus fail.

You are
your own world,
shared in some ways
with others.
Then speak
not that red
is another hue,
lest you be untrue
to you.