The Mirror Has One Shadow

"I'm proud of you for starving

It fits into the life I'm carving"

Said the shadow in the mirror

I'd long ceased to fear her

I narrowed my eyes and I replied

"By your will I always abide

But for all that, what have we to show?"

She shook her head and in a voice low

Whispered, "I can't tell you that yet

A promise made is a secret kept"

That was her cryptic reply

Not knowing what to make of it, I

I shook my head and I said, "no more"
She was still there, she'd opened the door

I Can't Tell You That

"Tell me that you never loved me"

I begged him as my teardrops fell

He turned his face aside coldly

I felt the fear in my chest swell

He shook his head with eyes averted

And told me, no, no he couldn't

I felt my features fall distorted

As I did what I knew I shouldn't

He ran away, as from disease

And I began breaking down

Waiting for the aching to cease

Sobbing there like a clown

Seeing my tears hardened his decision

Any old love died under cold derision

The 4am emptiness

It’s 4 am and I’m thinking of him again

The light creeps towards the trees

So up towards the clouds I bend

With my heart but on my knees

Reflections of his face in the clouds

Haunt me as the dawn is nearing

I would cry but it’s not allowed

Or at least not endearing

I pray the sun will turn my thoughts

And bury the regrets that are gnawing

At remembrance of what we’re not

On the ground my shadow keeps clawing

But she’s been digging all in vain

While I watch her from my rain