Me

Do you know who I am? Have you seen me? Yeah, you've seen me, even if you haven't acknowledged me. Nobody ever does. I'm the shadow dancing behind the flame. I'm the howl of the wind on a silent night. Yes, that's me hiding behind your guilty conscious and your transparent faćade. I am nobody and I am everybody. I am a fading thought, a glimpse of a would-be world, disappearing into a puff of smoke behind your decisions and choices. Shine a light into your own future and an endless stream of me will come crashing down upon you. You know I'm there and for the most part, I'm sure you're glad I'm here in the background. But... when that crucial moment comes and I'm needed, you won't welcome me. I'm alone in this world, surrounded by the ignorant and the untruthful and the ones poised on bringing this world to its knees. It's ones like you who give me life, and it disgusts me. Send me back to the shadows from whence I came and take my life away, that's what you're good at. Let the crows tear away at my flesh and leave me for dead. After all, you're doing a good job of making me feels these things in life. At least in death, when the breath and blood have drained from this tired corpse, will it all make sense.