Shadow and All..

I am broken
..but I know what needs to be fixed.
I am empty,
..but I know how to fill things.
Funny things..
..like peoples lives with Wonder..
..and The Tender with Honor,
..and The Shadows with lighted laughter.
But it isn't enough these days,
..to be a Sprite,
...and Love by living lovingly...
And to Live by Love alone!
To SURVIVE the onslaught of Life's little twists,
(..and The Twisted)
..I must think like the Darkness..
Must breathe and spin Fire 
Learn to speak like The Dragon to Be HEARD.
I must stand as close as I can to The Shadow
 ..without Falling through It's window, forevermore.
Must look into that window,
 And be prepared to be unprepared for what I've realized there.
When I see myself.
..the paradoxically shaped phrases that slip from my stupified synapses,
..and roll unsophisticatedly off of my tongue.
(The only way they can.)
And,..seeing the "rest of them", all lined up at the Shadow's edge,
..peering at their own reflections,
Just like me.
Dark enough somewhere WITHIN,..to attain this stage in what must be a Game,
Yet bright enough SOMEWHERE within,..to brave this plateau of Learning,
Hoping someday for more of The Light and less of The Shadow for All,..plus me..
Oh...(sigh)Can we not help each other?
..in some greater capacity?
..without getting swallowed up by The Other's Shadow Reflection Pool?
I keep hoping we can.
I may be broken,..but sharing these reflections is all I've got really.
Maybe they'll help me/you/us/them..who knows?
Thinking "BIG" is still sorta free...
Even WITH The Shadow's Edge right there.
I'm doing it. It's decided. Shadow and All..
Can't keep a good Sprite down!
I WILL find a way to fix what's broken in this place.