Your Shadow

Can you feel the shadow pressing behind you?
Can you feel it clawing at your skin?
It touches and scars, leaving you blue,
Can you feel it as your death begins?
Can you see the shadow around you,
darkening the lights that surround?
Can you see it as it guards your body,
from every eye that is around?
Can you taste the shadow about you,
with each breath, does it fill your soul?
Can you taste its being- so cold?
Do you feel each tender caress.
so filled with love and hate?
Do you watch for when it follows,
or have you given in to your fate?
Can you feel the shadow beneath you,
waiting to be part of your wake?
Do you sense it when it wraps itself around you,
loving you with each daybreak?
Can you feel the shadow, how it feeds on your life?
do you realize how it needs you?
Can you feel the shadow within you?
Can you feel me always with you?

I'll love you always, my king