Shadow, di Joe Marflak

Shadow

Hide

Shadows,

A sad man’s reflection

all to hide his complexion

you can try to run or hide

but your shadow is your dark side

you can’t run from your shadow

it’s been through every single battle

How come you are like the air to m… I can’t hear or see you But I know you are there for me Each inhale bringing clarity you take care of me

The more things change The more I feel strange The times on my mind Are hard to find real But somehow still remains

Insecure the feelings here steer this car Not a clue to where I’ll go

Think deep and sink in to thought for with time comes rhyme and my time can’t be bought but they say time is money

another caffeinated week and I’m stuck wandering in my dreams a… feeling so damn beat yet all I can do is smile whats going out of style

Gut full of rocks and head the sam… I guess I’m stone washed but these jeans are mine and no one elses, when you think leave I

I don’t understand let me through let me through I have two hands just like you yet mine have been scarred and bro…

To be a poet. Is it knowing self-worth? If that is truly something, It wasn’t given at birth. Words are sharp, they cut like kni…

Sailing at night or sailing in mor… all sailors take warning. We live in a tide of lows. With sewage that backflows through…

It’s the dollar bill that kills cheap thoughts been bought from the man that said you cant

Write a poem, just another one, Another minute Another death, an unappreciated br… Just the two of us, my heart, your…

tattered, tangled and frayed I cannot sleep the way I’ve alway… layed. I once used to sow these thoughts… But now I’m too afraid of what Iv…

Haven’t you heard! There is srength by numbers My family has been torn for years… What reasons, I wondered. Now we are like strangers.

what do you see, what do you see when you look at me? atoms and particles bending light? and what about the night? Do you see me as I see you?

Jaw always clenched In pain not power working til I’m drenched Wearing on my body trying to kill the mind