The Shadows All Around
Your shadow looms all around me
A reminder of what we were
The haunting chill of you
Follows me wherever I go
It's the quiet whisper of your voice
Not truly there
But not letting me go
Blocking out any light that could shine on me
Your dark lonely presence changes me
Making me a shadow of my former self
Drifting through existence
Darkening the doorways
Trying to reclaim my life
Instead, I am stuck in a land of shadows
Clinging to the outline of you
The darkened traces of what we were
The cold shadowing of what we had
The irrational hope that you'll come back
The fear that your shadow is all I'll ever have
And I'll be always trapped in it's cold lonely gloom
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