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Shadow
Deep inside my mind
Lurks a shadow
One I know so well
I’ve been fighting a lifelong battle
Against a shadow I can’t defeat
I need help
I am so alone
I run but it follows
I forget yet it torments my mind
Through this dark I hear a voice
A voice so clean and pure
It cries “My son, my son”
You were never alone
I cry for help but the voice is gone
The shadow screeches with laughter
At its victory
Then the voice says “I have not left, just believe”
The shadow screams
I believe I scream the shadow flinches
Leave me I yell
The shadow runs to hide
But I follow
Finally the shadow departs
And I awake
I open my eyes to see the ones I love
I tell them to believe and they will win
I have won the battle and the war
So I silently fade away
I awake again to the shining radiance
Of a man in robes
“You believed in me” says the voice from my mind
Stay with me forever I say
I again close my eyes never to open them again
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Deep inside my mind
Lurks a shadow
One I know so well
wow.. talk about powerful!