shadow

i hear a dripping tonight within an unexplainable shadow uncertain depths incomprehensible darkness here is empty and i have lost myself love has lost its sweetness dreams are black and white and bitter in the afterglow of life in this place i cannot make out my own heartbeat no pulse, no breath i am without there is nothing to the inside a hollow shell a skin of who i once was a carcass and a broken promise among crumbling bones all is left to be scattered into this mild wind and mist where flesh is torn and where blood was once shed for a love that brought me nothing but hurt and left me just as quickly, now i am nothing but a name a face to be forgotten a stone to be cast away into a sea of sorrows rippling into yesterday truly, i cannot remain here i am nothing but a shattered muse a lonely soul an aching misery a heart gone cold and, as i search out a reflection, i find nothing except you in these tired, absent eyes i have burried you in these God-forsaken ashes never a burden just a reason to cry out into the echo of hope and receive no backward glances not even a backward curse i was nothing to acknowledge and tonight i am nothing but a lie a raindrop on the windowpane a footprint in the faded grass of empty fields the tears of these dying trees a shadow cast among this present darkness i an now and forever your shadow