I make dark out of the best sunlight.
I keep looking behind me when it is all alleys.
So please
make me forget.
Caring a little too much,
trying not hard enough,
this past brings me to life.
I am still bathing in
love when it felt like a goal.
I am still wondering how I got here,
I am so broken I cannot fix you
I can’t fix my own chaotic mess.
I have stooped to the level of
using autofill to write my own poems
how can I even call them mine
if the algorithm has taken me.
I thought maybe all the memories could carry me.
I thought if I looked inside you right now
I could find an ending.
Something pulls me to the edges of all your stars.
Something crashes me into life.
I can’t unstitch myself from this shadow
I am afraid it is the something.
I don’t want to be this human
but I am so afraid I don’t have a choice.
My shadow lives my life
Strong-minded with
Quite majestic in character and
Sophisticated in fashion
More spacious in capacity and
Efficient in activity
Rather than me and my life
Outgrow of its strength
Isolated me from my life
And seduced my properties
To maintain its own identity
As if old enough in humanity
To throw me away in waste container
My shadow that I throw in the earth
Stretched my body in full
Shearing my clothes from my body
With only the skinny left over
No one may recognize me
As my own identity
I tried to run away from my shadow
That chases me like a wild goose
I scanned the horizon of my life
Far beyond my limitation
And searched my identity
Inside me and my life
Not knowing my relation
If existed with my shadow
To name after
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Echo of a shadow
By jfarrell
I am just the echo of a shadow;
Out of the night I jump at you,
Translucent, ghostly faces,
The mist caught by the moonlight.
The body that wore this face,
Long dead.
As the breeze moves amongst the leaves,
You hear my cries of joy,
Howls of frustration,
Cries of torment and agony.
The voice that sang my words,
Long silent.
Condemned a witch and sentenced to burn,
Here, where you stand,
I am long turned to dust
Part of the very ground beneath you.
My soul, that burns for revenge,
Still burns.
I am the echo of the shadow;
The shadow that dwells within your soul.
You are here because I call to you,
Blood of my blood, through the ages.
I surrender to you my witchcraft, my magic,
Now, go forth and unleash my vengeance.
Don’t Look
By JFarrell
Don’t look
You won’t, can’t see it;
What stalks you smiles, wide
It wants you to look
And fail.
You know it’s there
You feel its breath on your neck
You can hear its hunger.
Look ahead, straight forward
Look nowhere else;
Take the tiniest bit of your perception
And focus on the corner of your eye
You’re not looking
You’re not using your eyes
You’re just focussing….
THERE!
You saw it, didn’t you?
The watcher from the deeps
The devourer of all
Your loving shadow.
Don’t look
Don’t waste time looking
It’s really time for you to…..
RUN!
Verse 1:
Reality scares me to death.
I'm afraid to close my eyes.
Running out of places to hide.
I''ve become a ghost in your shadow.
In your shadow, I will pray for you.
Chorus:
Time won't stop or end.
We stand united, undivided.
Just be the light
and shine hope on
Those that need it.
Verse 2:
Where did we go wrong?
What have we left behind?
Where is God now?
In your shadow,
I will just be the light.
Bridge:
These days are out numbered.
Where do we go from here?
F.E.A.R - Face Everything and Rise Or
F.E.A.R - Fear Everything and Run.
In your shadow, I will pray for you.
Last-Chorus:
T.H.I.N.K - True? Helpful (Hurtful)? Innovative? Necessary (Nice)? Kind?
We're running out of time.
In your shadow,
I will promise
To pray for you.
there are days when I feel happy
refreshingly unburdened
wishing I could always live
free from heavy emotions
there are days when I am not unhappy
yet not fully alive, too tired to embrace life
preferring to walk the cemetery grounds
comfort of quiet company as grave as I
too quiet
so serious
dressed in black
distracted by the existential
lover of gray clouds full of thunder
not a suicide risk, although sometimes
I don’t want to exist
exhausted
discontented (dysphoric?)
embarrassed to feel broken
too aware of the world’s pain
always looking for the light, but
determined to find beauty in shadow
November.19.2001
Trisha M Barrek Hopkins
Dedicated to Tops my lil stray kitty from Tree Tops indoor/outdoor pool @ fernwood Hotel & Resort. I miss you frown emoticon
A shadow of you
That's all I see
I can see right through
You're still alive how can this be
This cant be true
You aren't dead
I can see you and feel your touch
Maybe it's all in my head
Maybe it's because I miss you so much
My mind must be playing tricks on me
I know I have to but I don't want to let go
You're my kitty I don't want to set you free
It's the only right thing to do I know
But every time I see a shadow
I think it's you
But turn around and no ones there
I miss your eyes
That powerful glow
It's just not fair
Everything I love it's taken away
It' either hurt or stolen
And I have no say
Except that when you're not here
My heart is swollen
A shadow of you
Is all I have which makes me very sad
One that is so close to my heart so true
To once have you as my pet makes me glad
I will never forget
The times when you ran to me
And on my lap you slept
Hope much I cared I hope you knew
You'll always be my favorite pet
Copyright*
SAILSTARRED, SHELLSHORED, SEAWEED SCRIPTED SEA
Sailstarred, shellshored, streamswelled
sandsifting, seaweedscripted sibilant Sea
secedes silently, softly
Shadowed shallows sheathing scallops,
sheltering seals, shielding scuttling snails,
shrouding sharks. Sands shifting secrete starfish,
scampering shrimp.
Serene Sea supports Spanish scows, Sicilian
skiffs, Senegalese schooners, Seychelles ships,
Sardinian sculls.
Saltsmelling sailors see soaring shrieking
seagulls, striped sunrise, shining sunset,
shshshing surf.
Sudden surprising storm’s symphonic sounds
slap shore shacks. Snows slip seaward, spring-subdued.
Soon sloop slides spiral sleep stairway.
-saiom shriver-
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Now listen to what I have to say
For the wicked hide in the shadows of this day
You know nothing of what is of me
You may know the color of my eyes
But not of what they are capable to see
Now here, I've warned this upon you
For not every smile is ever true
Everything is not set in stone
You may say there is an answer
When nothing is completely known
Close your eyes, please understand
That what you may rely on is a blood-thirsty hand
Unknown of what they truly are
Watch think before you turn and talk
Someone so close to you can be so far
So remember before you go on and say
"But why would anyone do this to me anyway?"
Human nature can be full of evil and greed
Unwatched, A monster born within the shadows, full only of self pleasure and need.