Shadows In Our Eyes

Shadows in the eyes, my eyes, their eyes All with hooded masks of intention All with the same contradictions I forgot to mention The shade covers up and blind's reality All without the laws of commonality All with a different personality I remembered this time Darker is the circles shadowed beneath the eyes All the depth caught in cryptic lies All the truth bundled up in disguise I am falling far behind Covering the fear within yellow spines All the shadows intermingled with mine All the confusion unknown by design I still try to push ahead Entering another shadow of the living dead All the voices of everything unsaid All violent sources still being bled I will never be rid of all these shadows again I will never see the light while in the shadow of sin Written for poetry contest "Shadows" Free Verse 09/22/2023