Showing posts with label Shadows of Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shadows of Love. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

WEP- Shadows


SHADOWS 

Was it love, my dear...
your words of criticism?

If so,
why do they still torment?

Like a faithful companion,
your declarations
envelope me.

Hateful and mean.

Destructive and debilitating.

Unshakable - everlasting.

No matter how I try
to shake their hold
they follow and pounce.

In sadness and gloom
I commiserate.

You’ve cast your words of love
in an ever-oppressing haze
where secretly I wallow.

For the world must never know
the true depth of your hate.

Or that you killed my essence
and left
just a shadow.

Yolanda Renée (C) 2020