My Shadow Seems to Linger

My shadow seems to linger 

She likes to wait around and stay 

Her uninhibited form walks beside me 

Always in delay 

Most of the time I fear her 

But today is a different day

Perhaps I ought to get to know her 

Instead of pushing her away.

My deepest fear has always been myself

I fear when I get near 

What if I do try to befriend myself 

Only finding there is no sound you can hear? 

Or what if it is the light which holds my shadow 

That remains far too shear? 

My shadow saves the light for me 

She holds the most human part of my humanity 

Without her startling depths 

I would not be as free 

To choose to know her pains, 

Her aches, 

Her lonely, 

Her shame, 

Is finding a safety in all the rejected parts of me.