My shadow represents my soul,
Wanting light but lost in the dark.
My shadow represents my future,
Dull. bleak and completely lost of all its spark.

My shadow knows who I truly am,
Knows me more than I know myself.
It doesn’t need to be strong and it doesn’t care if it’s weak.
It has no need to hate on itself.

My shadow is more of a man than me,
Dark and forgotten, yet light and true.
It knows of all my pain and struggling.
It knows all my sins and everything I do.

It knows my strengths,
And also my weaknesses too.
Every memory it witnessed,
Every sight and sound of old and new.

But even with that information, my shadow will always have my back,
Never to judge me, hate me or harm me.
And it’s the only true thing guaranteed to stay forever in my life,
Plus the restrictive laws of fake will forever leave it be.

The shadow truly does know everything,
Locked in or locked out, it really doesn’t care,
My shadow, the only thing that whether in sun or shade,
Is always there.

And in my life, I do float like a shadow,
And I am also trapped and tied to this contract that is life,
We both dance with the daylight,
Like a drunkard balancing on the edge of a sharpened knife,

But looking at my shadow,
It shows me how truly cruel existence can be,
My shadow suffers as well,
For he is tied to a life with me,

In a light where darkness has no need to hide,
This darkness only appears in light,
Lost in the faded sun,
For his life he has to fight,

So hear me shadow, Dear shadow,
One day you may follow a new,
But until that day,
In darkness with me, you must travel through.

Wrote on: 31/03/2025