It followed me everywhere,
That dark silhouette with an eerie gait.
Its very sight, drove a shiver,
For my collapse it lay in wait.
With my every smile it let
A frown, as if it wasn’t supposed,
Felt for eternity I was in its debt,
On every weakness of mine, it imposed.
Nothing could be more loyal,
Or persistent, shadow second to none,
Sometimes made me feel royal,
That attention I could not shun.
Whatever I was not, it was,
Everything I couldn’t do, it did,
Its path I wished never to pass,
Yet there it was, the one I couldn’t rid.
It wanted something all along,
Me to do that thing I would not,
Evil intentions I could feel strong,
Yet never understood its plot.
That compulsion, that control,
Blinded by its darkness I drove,
Every drop of my happiness it stole,
Hypnotized, in its world I rove.
All I asked for was a smile,
A shoulder to cry on, a fulfilled dream.
Yet lost it all in the last mile,
My tears cower to its deafening scream.
I resisted this precise plan
Couple of times I turned around
I survived but no longer can,
In its clasps, my time bound.
Walk with me and I let be
The things you love, you live for,
But never to return, prepared you shalt be,
Never will you get what you longed for.
Cloaked in its shadows I walk,
Reminiscing every pleasantry, every face,
Vision clouded, Absorbed in its stalk,
A final glance, a smile to chalk my trace.
Clinging to the last strand of hope, may be I can shake this shadow away?
