Shadows Poem by Elizabeth Dawn

Darkness falls over the trees in
the woods where I stand, not quite alone.
I can hear breathing in back of me closer
and closer and then I hear your velvet
soft voice in my ear, I shiver, because
when I turn your gone.

My heart shatters as the shadows of my
face deepen. My eyes shed the tears that would
not fall when you were here, now they
flow from my eyes like the rain of a storm.

Why do I still feel your touch on my cheek,
wiping the tears away? I want to run and never stop
but my feet are nailed to the ground
as my heart tears into smaller pieces
then the shards from before.

I can’t breathe with your voice
still fresh in my mind, still the one thing
I will never forget, still the one thing that kills
me to hear, still the one thing that holds
me together. My knees give way
and I fall to the leaf strewn ground.

The tears still not seeming to have an end;
I pick up the pieces of my destroyed heart
though I’m not even sure you could call it a heart anymore.
I curl up clutching my legs to my chest,
I hear foot steps, but I don’t won’t to move,
I can’t.

I see a shadow over my head
and then your voice rings through my body
yelling for me to run and to not look back.
But I can’t I’m frozen by the shadow behind me
and then its black all I see is shadows.