She Was Me, But I Wasn’t Her

When darkness touched my soul My heart went cold,

I felt like I swallowed winter whole

Things went black in my mind 

I couldn’t breathe or sleep

My body went dormant

I couldn’t move my limbs 

What was happening to me?

Did I do a mistake letting this blackness into me

Was a constant thought running in my head,

A voice quoted “no”

Was I hallucinating, I asked myself 

It again whispered “no”

Who are you, I asked the voice

It said “I am your shadow”

A shadow I didn’t want,

I thought I was going mad

But then I saw my reflection calling me

I glanced into the mirror and saw myself in dark clothes,

It was my dark side, a truthful yet scary side

That I once abandoned few years ago 

The shadow, that never left my side

The shadow, that was with me in my dark times,

The shadow that kissed my forehead every night 

The shadow that sang lullabies to me when storms took over my heart,

She was me, but darker than me

She was me, but I wasn’t her.