The Shadow of Friendship

I am the shadow,

I have your back,

I help along the path you have chosen,

I hide you from attack.

All shadows fade,

I stay behind when you leave,

I am alone for the choices, I have made,

At my passing you should not grieve.

You walk in the light,

I begin to fall behind,

I walk alone in the night,

I begin to fade from your mind.

I am always with you,

In company I am yet alone,

In my life I am one, never to be two,

In the shadows I am known.

For a friend in the most dire need,

I would bleed,

For those who walk in the light,

I will endure the darkest of night.

By you I stand tall,

I am with you until I hear the call,

A smile on my face when I leave this eternal squall,

I am with you until I hear the call.

Heart Beat

Thought I understood.

Thought I felt it.

Know I felt it.

But it’s different.

Every time it is different.

Heart failure.

A wound re-opened.

Shouldn’t I be dead by now? 

An empty hole.

Incomplete.

Struggling.

Hands, clinging to anything in reach.

Fill the hole.

Anything to fill the hole.

I don’t want to feel this way.

No smiles.

Only empty.

Holding myself together.

 

What is a lie and what is truth?

I don’t know.

I don’t know anything.

Broken.

Empty.

Here.

Alone.

Heart failure.

Flat line.