shadow and reflection

You told me
you always photographed your own shadow accidentally.

And I was always drawn to the reflections that fell upon windows.

Shadows and reflections are both born of light.
Technically, a reflection can cast a shadow.

I tried to become a shadow—
but it’s hard for a shadow to ever have a reflection.

Just like how you never tried to become anything for me.

You didn’t need a reflection that could live inside a shadow.
You needed the light.

And I was never the light you were looking for.