Shadows (a collaboration with jadedembers)

Do you hear that scratching?  
It's an all encompassing sound  
Like nails on a chalkboard  
It burrows into your ears,  
the persistent scratches...  
It's initiating a uneasy racing mind.  
Its like riding a broken rollercoaster  
The unnerving scratching...  
Becomes silent when attempts are made to seek its origin.  
Do you see those flickering shadows all around?  
Its enveloping the mind in despair  
Forcing us onto our knees  
Needs us to hate them,...  
because that's how they fall in love  
Leaving us betwixt and between,  
hoping loving those flickering shadows...  
will mean freedom...  
will make us whole, but...  
we both know falling in love with the shadows is willingly diving into the unknown.  
 
But all it takes is one caress  
Our skin willing to receive  
All it takes is one gentle touch  
A feeling that you'll never leave  
 
Blood and roses in still air  
The fragrance from waiting shadows  
Their luxuries of food, the aftermath of love  
Fade slowly from the grasp of memory  
A woman's scent eludes me  
Leaves me wandering, adrift, alone  
Then hunkered with the shadows, waiting by the phone  
These shades dance and mock me  
A reminder that ecstasy remains a pipe dream  
A pipe that has long since grown cold  
The shadows claim I'm lacking taste  
But little do they know  
My world turns without the sweet  
The familiarity of a meal at home  
I only part my lips, lick off the ash  
Continue to exist where only shadows roam
 
Seeing you slip further...  
into the shadows.  
Whispers...  
 its not long until they come for me.  
Chivalrous some might mutter  
Sinister chivalry isn't to be admired  
Running into your arms  
Loosing myself inside your embrace  
Kissing you until I can't comprehend t the difference between  
Your touch...  
And the shadows.  
 
 
 
 
 
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