Love Poem: Shadows
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Written by: Tony Bush

Shadows

I felt the shadows falling in the places 
We used to be 
Upon our mutual company, 
Upon the things we used to see. 

I felt the Gods foreclosing on the times 
That we once had, 
On the good and on the bad, 
On the laughter and the sad.

I felt the slaughter thudding in my heart 
And as it died, 
It slowly drowned to death inside, 
Within a well of tears cried. 

I felt the painful ending in the prison 
Of my head, 
In the words that we both said, 
In the echoes of the dead. 

I felt the darkest feelings rising 
From the depths of us, 
From a cruel nucleus, 
Rendered cold and cavernous. 

I felt my own despairing mirrored 
In your vocal chords, 
To the dread, unknown accords 
Of the things we turn towards. 

I felt the shadows falling on the best thing 
I have known, 
Leaving me, my flesh and bone, 
Desolated…and alone.