What's Wrong

Shadow

the monsters in my head are scared of love
---Diplo, Revolution

strangle me
bare your teeth
but don't come
near
i cannot
touch the light
without burning
my hands
my heart
is filled with dread
and shade
i am the one
that darkness
calls
the one who
slays beasts
with bloody palms
but you
were a species
i could not fight
you were full
of light
and i was forbidden
to touch you
for i am allies
with the ash
inside my soul
scared of the
light
that burned through
the layers of
black
i fear you
but you do not
fear i
for my name
is Shadow
but i am simply
a silhouette
of a being