Shadow Play

A single movement attracts my attention

A quick turn to see it disappear

My struggle to witness what is real

Thoughts prey on a realistic view

Here is where the daylight fade

Darkness leans on a morbid cain

Thought's deprived of sterile day

A haunting by the shadow play

So very still and silent I lay

To trace your steps through shadows way

The shadow represents a time before I knew

A presence felt, cold and by my side

I am your captive audience

Show yourself, and prove I am not mad

Here is where the daylight fade

Darkness leans on a morbid cain

Thought's deprived of sterile day

A haunting by the shadow play

So very still and silent I lay

To trace your steps through shadows way

I can hear you. I know you are there.

Your outline against the wall betrays

Standing in the dark, lurking in my dreams

I can hear your breathing across the room

Insignificant within the infinite

A road I have travelled many of day

Swallowed by the black in nights sky

Left to admire the beautiful failure

Not much will become of me this night

Not any night when the gallows fill

Sleep will find the deserts sand

This crushing fall steals my breath away

Thought's deprived of sterile day

A haunting by the shadow play

So very still and silent I lay

To trace your steps through shadows way