*Shadows

Sitting alone in this dark room

A single candle casting shadows

Dancing about the walls

Feeling the emptiness surround me

Engulf me, swallow me

I'm left all alone

As I was before you

But now even your warmth

Can no longer comfort me

For you are too often gone

Leaving me alone in the dark

Letting the shadows take me

I see us dancing

Together in the shadows

As we used to do

But you've drifted away,

And closer to the dark

I get every day without you

The candle is growing short

As our love seems, too.

Reach out to me

From the dark

And light a new candle

To keep the shadows dancing

And our love strong

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The candle means something.
12/23/01

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