# SHIFTING SHADOWS

There are times when someone passes by our side and we don't feel any different about that person but that person is actually fighting a battle with self to fight the shifting shadows.....

There's a girl,

who lives in the shifting shadows.....

fighting a battle with herself and on her own!

She wears smile effortlessly on her lips every day

just as;

she hides her dark past from everyone!

and they say she's a great artist...

no doubt she must be;

'cause 

she had changed all her screams 

to pretty tattoos...

She always fights for others bravely

just as;

she had always fight off her demons!

and they say she's a great artist...

no doubt she must be;

'cause 

she had changed all her moans

to sweet laugh...

She stubbornly never trusts any compliments she gets

just as;

she would always find a reason to live!

and they say she's a great artist...

no doubt she must be;

'cause 

she being a warm-blooded animal was

the cold-blooded monster within.....

There's a girl,

who lives in the shifting shadows.....

fighting a battle with herself and on her own!

which no one knows about...........

Author's Note

There are times when someone passes by our side and we don't feel any different about that person but that person is actually fighting a battle with self to fight the shifting shadows..... I think many of you will find it relateable .....constructive reviews are welcome...... :)

Reviews

[Andrew Nelson Stewart]

You are a fine wordsmith and how all words clash and share space for each other with their own meanings like for example Line "she would always find a reason to live! shows Independence warrior of life. Yet throughout your poem is very thoughtful and felt alot of empathy for passersby never know what souls are going through only trying to live best of their abilities and responsibilities mixed with love and careful crafted yearning to survive. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger yet still in pain. It's very thought provoking and loved every word. keep writing sincerely your friend in poetry and life . ps " Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he or she wishes to think we are." Carlos Zafon

[anonymous_at]

sometimes what doesn't kill you, in the long run, get you earning to be murdered silently, like you being pushed off from the 9 the floor when you are standing on the brink ......so in my point of view if you ain't the sinner person out here then you don't deserve to be announced of silent torture .....yes you are right...I indeed find it more comfortable to speak my true thoughts out with a stranger but you know you while you are sharing your s**t out with a stranger you are risking your personal information ....well good enough information to be blackmailed...so u know we do want to talk to strangers because some genuine people would actually see you as flesh and bone and not as a carved puppet playing your role in a play called life with its director being GOD and production company known as the universe and you know what genuine strangers listen and help you out with not keeping track of your past and present and future .. they present their ground on what they SEE and HEAR...SO I guess that's why we prefer strangers.

[anonymous_at]

and thanks a lot for dropping by and giving out constructive review :) and I'm glad that you liked my work...

[Andrew Nelson Stewart]

Very true and also in the same vicinity of passions and opportunities to have common ground to stand with other strangers in a different reality from yours when you write. Its always advised safeguard your heart and yet let go a bit . Yes true sharing your s**t there's always something good or bad when sharing haha. Sure thing keep writing

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes we can help others, and are good at it, but we cannot help ourselves...trust can be hard to attain.
This is that confessional style like the Beats...
and I especially like " she had changed all her screams to pretty tattoos...."
that is a very clever and visual line.
j.

[Einstein Noodle]

these lines particularly struck me:
"she had changed all her screams
to pretty tattoos..." ... reading on you repeat the same idea in different ways but those first really hit me as to who this girl in the shadows is. I think you are right about people relating to it. We have all had to put on our smiles and "perform" through the day though our hearts were far from feeling happiness. For me you poem speaks to the masses and the homeless ... those struggling with mental and emotional turmoil ... intent on our own self important day we walk right on by ... ignorant of the trauma and shadows brushing our shoulders ... i think there is some might fine "stuff" in this, Anonymous! thanks for sharing
E.

[anonymous_at]

Its good to see that there are people who find it relatable as whenever I talked abt it with my friends they would brush it off and would say you just keep on doing overthinking and you feel too much.....but those who have to act every day knows how draining it is
...and how much void it leaves you in .....
Thank you so much ....for understanding and for leaving constructive review ..... :)
-A-

[.]

I like this one very much. Yes many a time we fight with our shifting shadows and that is very internal. But at the end it is your fight to give justice to whatever you believe! Life is a passing state and so does the shadows...

[anonymous_at]

the worst part is that you have to fight those battles to survive or to fit in, in the society......and at times shadows don't pass
...they stay and haunt you...

Thank you so much for stopping by and for constructive review...

[Chris]

...'cept those that have also fought their own ...and listen.

[anonymous_at]

yes, you are right we should listen and respect what others have gone through... because sometimes non-visible scars are more hurting than visible one....thanks a lot for dropping by...

[Chris]

thanks for being here and speaking up

[anonymous_at]

no no ... I should be thanking you for taking out your time stumble upon bushes.
coz to be honestly speaking bushes ain't anything in front of passionate purple flower!!! so it's highly of you to review out starters :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed we encounter many people as we progress through life and never know their story. Some suffer, many suffer and you capture this well in this piece. The repetition works well!

[Haneefah]

Shifting shadow is a nice piece. It speaks my mind ..

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

Must agree with you. Shifting shadows or lifting the burden of uncertainty in life, always haunts us a lot.

[anonymous_at]

To be honest it still haunts me though....
But Sometimes you regret for not being yourself.....

[Avia]

It's something that people don't really think about. That everyone is fighting their own battles, and not everyone shows it. Very well written. Well done

[anonymous_at]

Exactly!! Ppl at times blurt out without thinking wht other person might be going through.....ND to fight your battlenon your own isn't easy either....