It was Real

I walk in the shadows

Noone knows my name, it's better that way,

I walk in the shadows of a moonless night,

I shun the people,

Running this way and that way.

My thoughts are my own,

I let no one into the darkness I feel

I let myself care, a mistake I now own,

He wasn't cruel or even unkind,

He just let me know it was time to go.

So, I walk now in shadows that mirror my soul,

Darkness without reflects the darkness within.

Pulling my coat tightly around a shield from the rain,

And maybe the pain.

'It will not last forever' or so I was told,

Still, often the darkness is my only friend.