In My Shadow
I walk on the lonely road,
From the time I have been alone,
I have no company,
Just my shadow here with me…
I laugh, I crack joke,
But my shadow knows,
The sorrow, pain inside of me,
The only friend by me…
Sometimes I see it laughing on me,
Sometimes I see it showing sympathy to me,
Like a black eye it stares at me,
Piercing my soul like nails with lava on it…
My heart is dead long time back,
But lonely shadow reminds of my past,
Like tortured screams,
My heart remembers her…
This lonely road never seems to end,
I have to reach it end,
As I can bear to be away from her any longer,
Or my lonely shadow will torture my mind...
My shadow is the true myself,
Cold, dark, sad and angry,
As it cannot smile,
Holds all the keys for my mind…
In the dark I cry,
But I can still see her in a far away light,
But then my shadow consumes her,
Leaving me to shed more tears…
‘Why, why do u do this to me?’ I ask,
But she just stares at me,
With no soul, no life,
Just an evil grim to remind me,
Of my loneliness…
Copyright © Shilpa Karthik | Year Posted 2007
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