My travelling it will never cease
From England, Canada, Australia and Greece
Joining a monastery briefly found inner peace
T-shirt summers and winters in fleece
A modern day nomad fated to roam.
Forever destined to stay alone.
A rounded pebble in the stream’s flow
Just a man following his shadow

A family life, the experience is not to be
Never will my eyes from child look back at me
My only companion throughout the day
Always there but never in the way.
Diligently watching by my side
Only without sun does he hide.
How a bow is to an arrow
Just a man following his shadow

What I’d give to have family to share
Burden of travelled solitude is hard to bear
Continuing to wander these vast lands
Traversing wild oceans and heated sands
Fruits of life that should be shared
Mundane to extreme I have dared
In the freezing rain and summer glow
Just a man following his shadow

Love witnessed, but never one’s own
Rested in many places but yet to have a home
Languid beauty of deep winter sunrise
Never yet shared through others eyes
A pilgrim of life’s desolation
What it’d be like to feel loves elation
One true friend in the sun’s glow
Just a man following his shadow

So the journey continues on
One day my dark friend shall be gone
At last I shall be able to rest
Life’s wave, well, I’ve ridden the crest
The time will come when I won’t have anything to follow
I confess to not feeling any sorrow
For when the time comes I shall have to go
No more following of my shadow.