Shadows

I try to talk to the shadows that follow me

Reason with what's unreasonable

Chasing me down so often that I

Don't have it in me to run anymore

Those eyes I see in the mirror

Used to have something in them

Not a light, not a bright fire

A darkness with more within

Now all I see in me

Is a crooked spine of steel

Hiding with the shadows around me

The only friends I know

Saw the darkness edging away

Don't want to give it up

The last part that was only mine

Now I'm in pieces