The Shade We Made

I'll never stop burning for you

i can’t lose you, but i know how. and when i do, i lose a part of my light. the part i buried in you when i was surrounded by shades of ghosts, and other quiet things in the shadows that kept trying to steal it from me.

you held it there. for me. then for us. sometimes you held it for you, if only to help find your way back to me again.

and you always did.

without you, it fades. it gets dark. it unravels, piece by piece, until we become a shadow of what we were, until i become the shadow that steals from myself.