Shadow of death

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?