A Dream About A Shadow

On seeing
his shadow
fall on such
ancient rocks,
he had to
question himself
in a
different context
and ask the
same old question
as before,
"Who am I?",
and the answer
now came
more emphatically
than ever before:
"No-one."
But a no-one
with a crown
of light
about his head.
He would remember
a verse from Pindar: "Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendor falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet."
--R. S. Thomas