The Shadow

There is a pit, and if you look carefully down it,

Perhaps you'll be able to trace the outline of a shadow down there.

The shadow might seem to be to be something good,

A prescence to peel away the loneliness with.

But don't get too close with it.

The shadow might entice you with supposed beneficence,

And with a sigh and a muttered apology,

It might pull you down into the depths of the pit with it.

The shadow didn't mean to.

The shadow did all it could to be anything but what it is now.

But in all due respect,

It is a shadow.

Shadows are meant to be solivagant creatures, 

They are created to melt into their own darkness.

So stay away from the shadow.

Stay away from it's pit.

The very existence of the shadow overwrites it's good intentions,

And resolutely, it will tear you apart with it.