Shadows Do Not Walk With You

SHADOWS DO NOT WALK WITH YOU contains eighty-three poems from playful to poignant, written leisurely over half the lifetime of its octogenarian author Sakina Yusuf Kagda. The collection affirms the wisdom of a woman who lives life knowing that, whatever the future holds, she will traverse the journey with a figurative spring in her step. We would do well to walk our chosen path the same positive way she does hers. An intreprid traveller – she scaled the sacred mountain of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka at age fifty-nine – her insights into life touch the heart of what it means to be a woman first and foremost, then seamless transitioning into wife, mother and grandmother over the years. And, always, with a sense of adventure. Astute observations in the Foreword by Senior Judge Judith Prakash set the tone for a reflective read as you turn each page of this 153-page compact compendium.