Just Another Shadow

Ethereal music playing in the background

As darkness slithered in to swallow him whole
With a heave of sigh, the hostile night descends
On his last solitary day, to bid farewell his soul

His unrelenting past chokes him without restraint

And a gloomy mist of sorrow looms over his head
He tries to remain awake, to hold on much longer
To escape his inevitable fate and his coming dread

His one cause and concern was his immortality

A longer life and hoarding his only obsessions
Materialism his philosophy and his way of life
Now a lone mortal with his prized possessions

Family and friends, he used and abused

Never did he care for their pleasures or pains
Now in time of need, no one is to be found
Solitude and emptiness are all that remains
Into a dire unknown his thoughts float away
As he tries to cling to his mind so desperately
Sickness devouring his once perfect body
His last attempt at redemption, a Pharaoh plea

He forces himself to weep, his tears unwillingly yield

Ferociously embracing them with a deafening silent fear
His only pitiful companions coerced into submission
Trapped in his little rich world, now so vacant, so drear

He realises now it is far too late for change

As he feels his heart rupture, he begins to mourn
His wasted life, chances and his defeated core
He lies on his deathbed horribly alone and forlorn

Beginning to concentrate on his irregular breathing

He soon grasps his imminent demise, inescapable fright
Becoming just another shadow amidst the shadows
In the endless darkness fading into the undying night

Monday, 11th July 2005

London, UK