The dark places.

Empty words,
Falling on an empty heart
This same routine that I am so used to.
I long for a hint of passion
yet I feel so comfortable in my loneliness.
I could escape,
but would only end up here.
This shadow of mine,
dark and misshapen.
Has it's hold on me,
I let it hold me.
But in the moment.
When I realize how easy it is to go unnoticed.
If I could just disappear, you would never find me.
Because you would never look.
And because some things just don't matter.
Some things are better left alone.  And forgotten.
Why try, if not a single person would remember.
Even if I'm already gone.
Who's to know?
It wouldn't change things.
I would still be in my own misery.
I would still feel this way.
I would still be alone.
But my shadow,
my shadow still holds me.
Even in darkness.
It still holds me.