shadow out of reach

The shadow

He approached what has made him,
He realized the shadow is real.
For a split-second he saw himself in the distance, as he got ever near
He turned his back but stood there still
          spare me the light, spare me the day
He muttered to a horizon all round, with a single line that got so thin
but he gazed in vain
“Perhaps one more step, or two…”, had lured his heels away…