Shadows

Innate shadows passed me by under A dark unlit starless sky Gaping mouths and hollow eyes No response to my cries Adrift above and everywhere Lost souls of whom I shall not fear Unmanned corpses lacking bone Shapeshifting follow me home I close my eyes they disappear Oppressive presence overbear And why I ask do they seek me I alone please let me be Or is it that I am the one Who longs for darkness to be undone I carry no light or no knife I tarry along within the night A lost and lonely host Too many a ghoul and a ghost Heralded by the death of others From dusk till dawn sending shudders To fearsome souls wandering around In the darkness like circus clowns