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

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