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Shadow Me

Samuel B. Duff 1981 (Michigan)

It’s been too long
 Since I took the time
 To empty out my head
 And I’ll admit that I’m
 F’ing scared
 What might be
 Tangled in those webs
 Cause all along
 My empathy’s grown
 Rotten in this heart
 To survive
 I’ll purge everything
 My ruins on the edge
 Light or dark
 For supremacy
 Which dies
 And which exists
 I’m torn between
 These two parts of me
 Impaled upon a fence
 Slowly partitioning
 Til I am worlds apart
 If I fight
 Might save everything
 Or lose it all instead
 Shadow me
 Shadow me
 I can’t give you this
 The shadow me
 Is under everything
 I’ll never rest again
 Shadow me
 Shadow me
 I can’t let you in
 The shadow me
 Is shrouding everything
 Til darkness fills my head
 Shadow me
 Shadow me
 I can’t let you win
 My shadow me
 Will keep taking everything
 Til nothing fills my head
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Submitted by gabrealmano on June 01, 2021

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Characters 799
Words 148
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 43
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