The Shadow

Ghosts from the past

 

Living life under the currents

Not seeming to be here

Not having any more to give

My mind not totally clear

What way it is my heart goes

For it tends to be alone

I try to look to God for strength

And to look at how I’ve grown

I go through my days even still

I recognize the pain

The loneliness, a shadow holding on

I’m standing in the rain

Though you’d never see it

For I am only me

I hold on to what I can

Not much, in the light, you’ll see

I’m looking always for an easier way

The path I choose moves on

Though somehow I go step by step

I move, the picture is gone

It seems that I, the shadow

Still empty though so full

I’m looking at the other side

Yet I am missing my goal

If I were to step into the light

The one I’ve sought so long

The fear that I the shadow have

Is that then I will be gone

For are there feelings other than bad

Is there more than this in me

Once more I turn to God

For the answer, I pray I see.

 

Reviews

[Ravenskald]

The plea and wish to seek solace in the spiritual to escape the immediate circumstance of paina and loss.
This is well expressed and I felt the desperation inyour voice in the way you phrased it
"The loneliness, a shadow holding on
I'm standing in the rain
Though you'd never see it
For I am only me"

Is a wonderful image

When you write like this you deserve your answer !

~Raven