Shadow Play

Am I insane

Crazy mad

Must be what it is

Talking to shadows

As I do

One sided chats mostly

Not sure why

Doesn’t make me feel

Good

No redemption

Don’t always see them

Around the corners

In the corners

Hiding and not hiding

From me

They’re just there

Like Marley’s chains

Dangling

From my ankles

My wrists

Straining my pace

Weighing me down

So we chat

Where nothing

Comes back

With them as witness

Willing and unwilling

Never leaving my side

So they are stuck

With my thoughts

That they hear

Neat trick that

Mind reading

Can’t do that well

At all

Myself

Asleep

Awake

Day dreaming

There they are

Or maybe just one

Staring me down

Waiting for that flinch

That I got you

Moment

The big HAAA

Never happens

I go happily on

My way

Trying to see

Make sense of the shadow

Real or unreal

The candle flickered

In still air

Guess they’re still here