If Life Was Like a Poem

Shadow

do you know what its like

to live in your shadow

to be stuck in the darkness

of someone else's light?

no, I don't think you see

my point

it seems to me

that no matter how hard

I fight to step from behind

that looming dark illusion

it moves with me

blocking me from the light I so deserve

that I so badly crave

a thing I have been deprived from

and just as I am about to finally reach it

I can see myself falling back

another shadow taking the place of the last one

your shadows are too big

they are too strong and

I can't rise to that challenge

my knees are weak

they aren't meant for this

yet still

a different approach I try

often I wonder

why I push myself

when the same result is what I recieve

there are days

where I am pushed to the end

where I can no longer fight against that darkness

so I let the shadow loom

after all, what more can I do?

there is always someone with

a little bit more

there will always be a shadow

where ever I go

it will follow me

chase me

and hunt me down to the ends of the earth

and someday I will die

I will die with that shadow leaning over me

and I'll gasp the words

"you win"