Merciless Shadow

(by: Uel Ceballos)

Your shadow follows me wherever I go

I have trailed the perilous woodlands,

Have walked the strange footpaths,

While breathing the air of green and savoring the kisses of sunlight

Your shadow just wouldn’t depart

You are the unwanted blackness

That stained my ever vibrant canvas of dazzling rainbows

And sparkling fireworks

You are the icy cold wind that surges me to death

Even under the most scorching heat of the sun

I have conquered the towering greatness of mountain,

Have looked down over fields and plains like a heroic figure

But to you, I forever stoop on my knees

My head bowed low to the soil

Like a spoil from a battle you’ve won,

I was defeated and enslaved.

Your shadow just wouldn’t let me go

You made me sick.

You are the spiteful malady that breaks every bone in my body,

Burns my joints in hellish fire, inflames my vessels to excruciating pain

You gets me bald and exposes me in shame

My eyes are bloodshot by the incessant tears of grieves.

Pus-bearing pustules are all over my face

You’re as cancerous as the dead soul that decays

Within a mortal’s living body

Your shadow beats me without the least of compassion

I’m better off to be dead than to be at your mercy.