Only a Shadow
By: The Nevermore Raven

I am just a Shadow that is left in pain.
The sun does not shine, the clouds cut with cold rain.
A person that is cursed with relentless fears,
A person that weeps through countless tears.

They keep me away from the light.
I am doomed to hide in the night.
Every night that I go to bed,
I am cursed with this death that stays overhead.
I am fearful of nightmares, afraid to sleep.
All I can do is worry and weep.

The light gives others joy and peace.
Their hearts are content, never to cease.
But it forces upon my heart cold neglect.
Treating me like a plague that wants to infect.

The darkness is so empty and cold.
Their torture for me is cruel and bold.
The light is a soft and gentle warm breeze.
Yet I am taken out here and left to freeze.

I bring darkness to all around,
The only fact I have surely found.
People hate me, though I have fought.
No one cares if I die or not.

My heart is cruelly crushed and shunned from any love...
Though I beg angels that curse me from high above...
Since long ago I can plainly see...
That there is no one that loves me...
My heartbeat stills its own faint pace...
As blood and tears freeze to my face...

I struggle to draw... my final breath...
The darkness... is freezing me to death...
Panic chokes me as all life... deserts me on my own...
I am only... a Shadow... I will die all alone...