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Shadowland Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate What if I told you that my life was once like yours? Torn between love and hate A shadow silhouette lurking between life and death Fuelled by an emptiness to which I couldn’t relate Caution to the wind of besting the best, A devious test? Sweet sensations winning an egotistical contest Life on the edge, merely a precarious precipice Exhilarated ego threw flames to the flame The fire inside couldn’t be tamed Comforts of home failed to exist Love I yearned for endeavoured to resist Mind effortlessly lied, failing to grasp the illusion between confused, lost and utter delusion Life on the streets a means beyond the dare Sink or swim baby, did anyone care? Till the one eventful day when I chanced it too far Catastrophic event out of nowhere in shape of a car A sickening thud My frivolous life paid in blood My death in vain and loss of blooming years Too late like acidic rain flowed those tears What if I told you if you don’t already know? The concise connotation through electric flashes of blue and red of the loudest despairing dread When they zipped the bag and pronounced you dead? And you become a glimmer that nobody sees and the silent scream that nobody hears Except other shadows between worlds In an intermundane space Torn between abstract, physical and a forgotten face Temptation came as I sat here waiting To switch sides, she urgently advised me I saw through her guise, this diabolical entity I’m not an Angel that fits in your regular category So, I spat in her eye and called her a name Oops! sorry Lord forgive me I know you heard Some of my old sass remains Still new to the game Yes, understood, it’s a crying shame. So back to my story Redemption came in the grand scheme I was one of the fortunate few redeemed So, take heart, kid, abandoned to this shadowland Not anymore No more a wandering weary soul lost Fate was not kind it was never your fault Conducting your journey to me the charge has been given Through a leap of faith all is forgiven</center By Maria Williams ©
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