Your Shadow in My Dreams

I see your shadow

In my dreams

Soft and fleeting

Like a whisper I cannot hold.

You move across my nights

A gentle presence

That reaches for me

Even when you are gone.

I feel your voice

In the silence

A memory that hums

Through empty rooms

Through quiet streets

Through the spaces where I once held you.

Your shadow lingers

In the corners of my mind

In the soft folds of thought

In moments I thought I was alone.

I try to touch it

But it slips away

Like sunlight through my fingers

Like wind across an open field.

I follow it through dreams

Through places that never existed

Through memories we never shared

Through nights that stretch endlessly

With your absence as the only sound.

Your shadow reminds me

Of laughter I cannot replay

Of words we never spoke

Of hands that never met

Of moments that vanished too soon.

I wake and reach

But the bed is empty

The room is quiet

The shadow is gone

Leaving only the echo of you

In my chest

In my thoughts

In my heartbeat.

I carry it through the day

Hidden in pockets of memory

In the lines of faces

In the way the light falls

In the way the world moves

Without waiting for me to catch up.

Yet even in absence

Even in distance

Even when the shadow fades

It teaches me

To hold gently

To love without grasping

To remember without pain.

And sometimes

In the quiet of night

I smile at the shadow

At the memory

At the echo

At the soft presence

That once touched me

And still lingers

Even in dreams.

Your shadow in my dreams

Is not sorrow

It is a gentle reminder

That love leaves traces

Even when it cannot stay

Even when it cannot speak

Even when it only exists

In the quiet corners

Of a dreaming heart.