Shadow
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Wherever you go
I am you shadow
I am your half forgotten dream
your suppressed sorrow
I am a promise broken
a hidden room
In which you keep
dark memories
and evened scores
Femme, tu étais si belle. Tu étais si jolie
Tu étais si polie, si jeune et pleine de vie
Tu étais si magnifique. Tu étais si gentille
Do you see the strange man
Hiding behind that post?
He jumps at the slow breeze
Trembles like a scared ghost
Do you ever hear him
Make any sound at all?
He won't open his mouth
Your touch is tattooed
On every curve
Your smile
Foggy amongst the autumn sun
I dream of your eyes
Sad and wandering
Well a lifetime slipped right on by
Underneath my wing
In the space between youth and it's timeless lies
A lifetime found its way ahead of me
One more time
I thought i'd outrun it
No one scares me like the shadow like the shadow in the mirror
The shadow knows my darkest thoughts
The shadow tells me things I dont want to hear as I beg it to stop
All we are is
just shadows
Without bodies,
immaterialized.
What will matter then
sifting through dark
No flesh left to torture
no substance left to taint
This life haunts me
Walking up a concrete hill on the way home from school.
The sun beams against my back.
Creating a shadow darker than my caramel skin.
I don't know why I struggle to write about the good things
Why does intensity only live in the darkness - the pain and depression?
Why is the grey of night so much more powerful than the color of day?
i'm afraid.
it's a feeling i can't escape from — nothing i can turn a blind eye to, skip over, forget.
Shadow...
Now she's the girl he told everyone about,
bragging, changing, manipulating the reality of what really happened.
She got stripped of her clothes, stripped of her trust, stripped of her youth.
ME:
I'm alone and I feel like I should feel worse but no matter how hard I cry
I don't feel pain
I'm alone but I feel more alive
I can sit and I can breathe and I can watch
Unfamiliar
A child, scared at their own shadow,
Pondering its own unfamiliarity,
Slightly,
i
lonesome and awake
watching the lighthouse swing
beams scanning cowards
through bedroom windows
foreboding dawn of a red planet
universe of hopeless
Just because I am a darker skin color
I am not ghetto
I am not out of what's "acceptable"
I am not white washed
I am more intelligent than you think
Just because I am nonexistent in your household
Dear Death,
I know a place where ashes fall like snow
And fear is a shadow,
It follows me around as a lover,
Holding me closer until I can no longer breathe
I wish not to be forgotten
Or my seemingly numb heart
Because of the things I’ve said
But did not meant
And my dry voice
In the depths of the reflected light
You can catch a glimpse, a girls' shadow
It's a sight you can't overlook
With her eyes so hollow and haunted
Concealing within a ghastly narrative
Silent shadows of the night
Drawing near in the light
Hiding in corners of the wall
Stalking you down a narrow hall
Voiced through whispers on the breeze
Beware of that which you can see
Whispers and shadows were all around
As someone knocking the door
But no one was there
Illusion
No, not at all
Than what it was
It was love
That never came to me
The shadows chased me
If I had a voice to sing
With every breath my voice would ring
Out into every starry night,
And at the dawn
When my words have gone
I will with them take flight.
It is from their heart
You follow me everywhereFrom sunrise to sunsetSometimes tallSometimes shortYou watch my backOr sometimes take the leadYou may not always be visibleBut I know your here with me
There's a shadow following me
one nobody else seems to see
am I crazy
it all seems so hazy
it looks like someone I used to know
like someone from a freak show
it won't go away
I know how to smile
I know how to lie
I know how to hide
I know how to act
I know to fake pride
But there are too many things
I keep hidden
Another side you won't see
I am still just a shadow.I am still just star dust.I am still part of a Universe I never quite knewbut I'm homesick for. I bleed only to pull the stars out by their edges.
Three minutes born after her,
Three thousand more years from being in the light,
For I am her shadow,
Like all shadows,
I only know how to copy,
Like all,
I only know how to follow.
Tangled in words unspoken,
Cut by dreams that are broken,
With open eyes I stare in wonder
At this world so sundered.
I'm afraid to speak,
Terrified to dream,
For my fragile heart is easy to shatter.
I am tired.
Tired of holding my tongue
at the thoughts
my mind shouts.
What do I want to do?
Who do I want to be?
How will I make money?
I do not know.
And I am tired.
The shadow of love isn't just found in dark spaces.
It's found in a sea of familiar faces
who stretch out their arms for a quick slap of the hand
Only a portion of me is a neon pink.
Outgoing and wild,
crazy and free,
doing what I want,
when I please.
On a good day I'm a bold red.
Bouncing off the walls,
A mirror has the ability to make a duplicate of one's self.
It isn't a true copy but a near shadow of who one really is.
For a mirror can only show so much, and often it leaves out the core of who one is.
Garden of roses
Garden of love
Simple garden of kisses
To make my wishes
Dreams in the garden
Twilight in the night
Moonlight glows
In the night
The garden of happiness
The infamous dark.It seems like it will never end.You take a journey: from the moment you embark,'til the moment it ends,It's still there.No matter where you go,Its presence will undoubtfully show.
Bombs everywhere, missiles left and right, clenching my gun in my hand so tight. Side versus side, so scared but I will never show it, America the Brave, proud and heroic.
I came from a woman who never felt love
A woman who couldn’t seem to find the man above
A woman who replaced love with lust
To those filthy niggas, she entrust
But OH HOW for granted they took her guts
Midnight in the city, many people still wandering about.
I happen to be one of those people, I began to doubt.
Upon realization that the crowd around me was missing something,
Darkness inbetween light
Invisible in the night
Dancing in the sun
Moving when I run
Trapped to the likes of me
Never to be free
A darkened reflection
Following in any direction
Let us arise swiftly
Let our movements be done
Abruptly
Like the wind
So that they may never catch us
Us,
We who lay in the shadows
Hiding in the darkness
for we know no fear
I look to you,Then to myself,Then to my life,
Past wretched falure upon failure,Bewitched by hollow hopes.
My love never was,It never should have been
A shadow appeared
The fatal apparition
In my dream
A corrupted echo
Her hands were steady
Calm and ready
For night’s return
Just a shadow in the hall.
Everyone sees the shadow when they need help,
But she disappears after.
Just a resource, not a friend.
The shadow has spunk and humor within her broken puzzle,
Golden days are full of bloom
But inside petals is dark
of gloom.
Beneath waxy leaves
are hidden shadow
There I walking solitude
Alone, inconspicuous and free
Of shadow where I walk passed everyday
I'm very confined in my own mind
Wandering upon reality
Why does my shadow mock me?
Everything I do, it does the same,
Very ghostly and crafty,
I have to do something to throw it off aim.
What don't you get
Why can't you see
That there's nothing in this for me
No matter how hard you shove me away
No matter how much you plead and beg
I'm never going away
My thoughtsGo crazy. They wander,They go in circlesMaybe that's the reason for the blackCircles underneathMy eyes.My eyesStare out the window as my thoughtsUnderneathThy skin wanders.
As I lie here,
Contemplating my life,
Thinking about the pain,
Sorrow, all those I have hurt,
And most importantly the suffering;
The shadowed den I live in,
The black girl.
Built strong, legs long unlike her hair.
Hair thick like her hips. Full lips.
Left on this earth for a purpose but constantly forced by society to find it alone.
The absolute design that defines me,
and yet in the mist of the night no one hears my screams.
There I was, yet there I wasn'tFor they neither saw me or knew where I hidThe shadow's hostage; the dustmite's captiveI feared "I'm forgotten" despite what I didAlas, they still call me
The incident happened, but nothing remains
The silent night riddles with mystery
Leaves blowing following unknown paths
only to later settle in the wet murky puddle left behind by the rain
Life is a shadowShifting, shaping, twistingInto braided ropesThat wrap around the throat andTugBending over window ledgesCurling into gnarled talons that
Grasp at your heart to
` Sh adow. Follow me every step of the way,
from young to old, night and day.
Watch me make mistakes and over come struggle,
knowing there are so many things that I must juggle.
Leave me at the end of the day,
While I'm sleeping, my shadow dances.
She creeps out from under me, cautiously at first, careful not to wake me.
Overwhelmed by power great
He bowed beneath pressure and his will was bent
At last his spirit broke
Then in darkness he did dwell
Among the creatures of the night
Neverland
by Ima Ríos
Black as sin,
hot as hell
and bitter as love.
If my shadow were a cup of coffee
it would be the perfect cup.
My shadow lies
Shadow cannot escape her boundaries. She is smothered by the thin veil of darkness, her eyes forever clouded with the unkown. She is unseen among others, translucent.
Fallen to a safe, vulnerable country with no hope of escape
loneliness is my security and fear has control of my fate
the fate that has left me long ago to succumb
Life under a shadow
So dark and so cold.
Life behind the scenes
Can get boring and old.
We all want to be in the spotlight
Not the one pulling the curtain.
We want people to see our talents
Shiver silver light
Silken, lonely, in the rural night,
Breathing strange souls into shadows,
Slips over my skin.
Revealing just enough
to intrigue.
Wrapping reality
with a dream
Walk slow swinging shadow
Look on silent friend
I'll banish you to the darkest corner of my mind
Then force you out again
The company of your sihloette
The gangly movements I shant forget
"Is she always like this?"
I'm asked time and time again
The crowd always follows
Even when they know nothing
They're curious about her
As only the physical is obvious to them
when did my shadow
slip
under my fingernails
slither
through my pores
slide
into my bloodstream?
I am always with you
In your head, In your soul
You are so full of light
But I am nothing but darkness
Breathing, Thinking, Alive.
I am alone once the sun falls
and the moon takes its place
Breathing, Thinking, Alive.
I am alone once the sun falls
and the moon takes its place
In the night,
I hear voices.
In the dark,
I see gleaming eyes.
You eat away at human souls,
Full of jealousy and greed.
Your kind cackle in the night,
Gnawing on me.
I look around,
Nobody's seen a shadow like I, a shadow that glows only at night.
From the nightly depths and shallows of the gallows this shadow does rise
Not in light of the fellow, bright yellow up high in the skies
