A Poet

To My Shadow

At this moment I'm in my room in the dark with no one and

nothing.

Where are you?

I thought, if I was in the dark at night I would see you in your true form.

You would have color, that would take over the darkness that hides you.

I thought you would have eyes, that I can see with my own.

I thought, you would have lips that you could speak with and if you didn't know how to speak I would teach you.

I thought, just maybe with your nose and mouth, we both could smell and taste all the sweets in the world.

Here I am in the dark with out you.

The switch goes up, lights turn on.

You appear.

Out of the darkness, you are now here.

"Where were you?

I could not find you.

I thought you would come, in the dark.

You didn't and I'm mad at you for that.

Mad at myself.

Leave!

I scream at us, it hurts me.

You're still here and that hurts me more, because you've been with me forever.

Except in the dark where you hide.

Are you scared of the dark?

Do you go somewhere?

Where do you go?

What do you do?

Down, beneath, I go to where I brush my teeth.

Close away from us, I turn my back on the door.

Water from my eyes down onto the floor.

And here you are on side of me.

Now for some reason I know who you are.

Your the one person who I can trust, the one person who will never leave me, your my best friend.

You were born when I was born and when I die you will never leave my body.

Not until it turns to dust, but even after that, if someone where to let my dust fly free, you would still show a peace of you, with the dust of me.