Shadow

Rushing past, pass the days

With the flip of a coin each morning

The sky stays dreary and gray,

What seems like an ominous warning

But it was long ago, what seems like yesterday

That love triumphed in my life

And cast a shadow of dreary gray.

I live in that shadow,

With my eyes hidden behind sunglasses

I live in that shadow,

Because the sun burns my eyes

I live in that shadow,

Because as we all know you can’t escape lies behind.

I could spend my entire life pretending,

That it never happened,

Or that there had been a different ending

The sun shines bright, but behest the night

For it brings a blackened saddened bending

Of everything you thought you knew

And years later the feelings you thought you outgrew,

Just linger and loiter and follow you

Like a shadow.

I live in that shadow,

With my eyes hidden behind sunglasses

I live in that shadow

Because the sun burns my eyes

I live in that shadow

Because we all know you can’t escape what you left behind.

What monumental people,

To cast a shadow that extends a decade or two

What monumental people

To give you something tangible that you can’t construe

What giants of the past they must be

Put darken your path for what seems like eternity

What impact they have made,

To cast such a shadow.

I live in that shadow,

Unable to escape it

I live in that shadow,

Realizing its nature,

It is, in fact just a shadow and it may follow me

The rest of time,

But it’s my shadow too,

It’s my life.

-JGG