Shadows

Over my shoulder
Wrapped around my middle
Filling the spaces in my bones
And occupying a home in my head.

Insistent and impatient
Always dragging me along
Pulling me out of my skin
And smiling as the blood pours.

Smoky screen part of me
That keeps everyone else out
No use fighting it
For it is only me.

How do you rid a part of you
Without ruining the whole thing
For my shadow haunts me day by day
And soon I must stop it all.