The Music of the Shadows

You slip away
amidst the love and darkness
but startled--
you see my
e m p t y
eyes
they stare at you
-- sullen, rough, tired
saddened by your leave--
wondering inside my head
if you ever loved me

a tear drops down
i reach-- to pick it up
collect the tears i've cried
but find that they have disappeared...
and, Oh!
i wonder--
all these years...
were you just here to steal my tears
using me for ?nothing? (?something?)--
like the broken love
that lingers
in the middle
of the room in

u between s...

and not a word is said
all the love is dead
but you still stand there--
i still stand here--
afraid to move, to say anything
that...
presence of departure
echoing(echoing)
amongst the cold walls,
the bald floors and the
stone, burdened ceiling--
and our eyes still are
connected
like a magic force
were causing us to be
unable to move our bodies...
the room is so dark
but it feels like our
eyes are glowing...
and though i can't
see you... I
know...
you're still there

silently...
almost as silent as
"The Night Before Christmas"
i find one tear... and
then another... their on the
floor... all... crystal-like, their shapes
so undefined and sodden...
i try to pick them up, but i
find-- there are so many...
i try to grab them-- but each time
i find one...
another one falls...
and more.
i drop the tears to the ground
giving up... letting them fall... and fall...
and.. fall...

silence fills the room,
like your shadow,
dancing in a room with
no music... but all the shadow
needs is a sense of
imagination, and the music
is --> there...
but even with an imagination
you will not love me...
and as you watch my
tears falling onto the ground
the echoes of the Music of the Shadows
filling the room
your eyes close...
and darkness pervades an
already dark love
beheld by me
and as the final tear falls
upon the bare floor,
i look for the light of your
eyes to guide me past this
troubled,
horrible words...
but you are gone...
and so then my soul fills up
with
The Music of the Shadows
and i let you slip away... letting go.
And i close my eyes, my heart
sinking low into the ground...
and early grave for my hearts final resting place
and as i close my eyes, the radio
plays the soft and melodic tune that makes me tap my toes...
The Music of the Shadows