Shadows

"A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to an obstruction." For light to exist there must also be darkness, for without one we couldn't comprehend the other.

Staring out towards another black sunrise

Shadows greet me as I open my tired eyes

Another day stuck in hell to pass the time

Sentenced to life but committed no crime

Hooded figures pass by down on the street

Marching toward a salvation so bittersweet

The silent frowns of lugubrious circus clowns

Reverberate through a million ghost towns

So loud the echoes come to me screaming

But they cannot stir me from my dreaming

This state of perpetual bliss is misleading

As my heart lies on the ground, bleeding

The world around me, distant and blurred

Like the truth, it lies twisted and obscured

Warped by minds, not by the hands of man

Sculpted, manipulated to fit the master plan

Numbness keeps the vacant vessels reeling

When pins and needles mimic actual feeling

Seeds of disaster sowed deeply into my mind

Foreshadow a coming fear of a greater kind

Memories like broken glass, rise from the soil

Foreboding feelings make my blood boil

Clouds gather and the shadows rise higher

As I slip further and further into the quagmire

Reviews

[MOON]

Poignant lovely write , you depicted that shadows so well. Life is not what it seems its dark . Love these lines Another day stuck in hell to pass the time

Sentenced to life but committed no crime

[Pale Rose]

I don't normally comment on other's stuff, but I really liked this! Just wanted to say that :) Sorry I couldn't be constructive.