SHADOW

A faithful shadow
Thoughts of you have long bedded me
The vaguest reflection of my sentence
Betrothed
An intangible yet resilient presence of absence
Dancing about me every waking hour
This hold I cannot shake
This warding brand no guise can make opaque
And from the tether I have found no release
I am not my own
I am
Not... Naught but
A soul still grasping to one dream
That after some starless night
Where everything that can been seen is not
I will awake to my Liberty

TGR