For so long you and I were referred to as one,
as a pair, or a plus one to the other, or our names were always right after the other to show we were always together.
I'm now living my life as independently as I claim to be and your name is no longer one beside me rather a phantom that lingers behind.
You see, you became a shadow that consumed me,
Brightest days are when your shadows are the largest and although my smile is what others would see,
it was you that had a grip on me and i could never escape.
When children learn of their shadows they tend to play with them, yet when I learned of you I tried to run as far as I could and leave behind the thought of you that haunted me day and night.
You pulled out a darkness in me like a candle being taunted with a painfully slow burn,
I could see it, but feared it, and once it was here it was the end of the me I knew.
This darkness is one I wish I kept hidden away, I wish I never showed you I could possess,
because now all I have left from the light you once sparked in my heart,
is the shadow of your memory and what we used to be.
