http://slow.writerscafe.org/Lone%20Shadow The original writings of author Lone Shadow en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776022605 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 I sit all alone in this room,Watching.My Love is taking shape before my eyes,The shape of flame and smoke.I have written you a love letter.Nothing else is strong enough to hold my emotion.What I feel has become so great,Only fire is strong enough now.Only fire can tell you my he.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/621376/ Why is it that people find it strange that my brother and I go on dates together? My brother and I are extremely close. Sure we fight and get mad at each other as all siblings do, but at the end of every day we are still very, very close. We do many things together, including going out. I take him o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/604605/ Dear haters, protesters, unsupporters of war,  It has come to my attention that many so called Americans are rising up and voicing out. Now usually this news would excite me, but I have discovered that this uprising is not against enemies or those with ill intentions against us, but it is an .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/566061/ Here, on this day, this day of days,The night is done,And in the dawn we seeThe enemy waiting before us,The bodies of our fallen brethren around usWashed in rivers of blood,The air thick with the cries of pain, cries of fear.Doubt grips me and I wonder:How can I do this?What c.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/539424/ The greatest weapon in all of time,Is made not from steel nor wood.It is man's tongue,And even hell cannot defeat it. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/538578/ What story could be told with my portrait?Loss, heartache, abandon.What would be sensed behind the eyes of my portrait?Hope, fear, wanting.What vision could be seen from my portrait?Desperation, heart break, desire.What sound could be heard through my portrait?Weeping, screaming, hollow laughter.W.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534397/ Can't anyone see meas I rip out my hair?Can't anyone hear meas I scream for help?Can't anyone feel meas I grasp for reality?Can't anyone care about meas our eyes briefly meet?Can't anyone think of meas you brush past me in the street?Can't anyone notice me? http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534394/ Death the silent lover, the carrier of souls.Death the answer to my problems, the hero of my hurt.Death the last great adventure, the last conquest.Death the icy black, the inky lovely.Death the hollow eyes, the evil grin.Death the breaker of wills, the destroyer of futures.Death the uninvited, th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534392/ I think of what you did to me and what I wanted you to do,I cannot decide if I love you or I hate you.You hurt me deeper than anyone before you,I want to hurt you back and make you bleed.I want to love you and hear your voice again,I want things to be like they once were.My heart sings for peace, .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534391/ The world is full of cruelty, it is everywhere. But it is the beauty hidden around us that helps us to survive, IF we are willing to look for it. Beauty is in everything and everyone, we just need to look with the eyes of our hearts and souls, not the eyes of our peers or of society. We must see b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534387/ I am so aloneI reach out into the darkness, no one takes my handI walk along this path, no one joins meI speak into the silence, no one answers meI look into the expanse, no one peers backI scream, no one hears meI touch someone, no one feels meI throw my heart, no one catches itI give my all, no .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534386/ I am sick of tryingSick of lyingSick of cryingSick of darknessSick of sadnessSick of lonelinessSick of fearSick of tearsSick of peersSick of blindnessSick of weaknessSick of madnessSick of hateSick of loveSick of life. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534385/ As I stare down this hole, I feel peace.As I stare down this hole, I feel calm.As I stare down this hole, I feel ready.As I stare down this hole, I feel resolute.As I stare down this hole, I feel love.As I stare down this hole, I feel free.As I stare down this hole, I feel life.As I stare down thi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534384/ I died a little today when that fateful sound erupted from my computer.That sound that announces you have mail.When I looked I saw it.That title.Those words I thought I would never see again.Your words.Your name.You told me you missed me and you had been to weak to see things through.My heart says.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534383/ Life goes on.All around me, life goes on.Without me, life goes on.Leaving me behind, life goes on.People are growing up, life goes on.People I once knew are getting married, life goes on.I am forgotten, life goes on.I can't be like them, life goes on.No matter how hard I try, life goes on.Why can'.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534380/ In times like this I feel a longing.A pull inside of me.A calling of another time.I feel out of place in this day and age.Outside of this advanced world with my wanting of days of old.Outside of this world with my desires and beliefs.Outside of this world with my heart, mind, spirit and soul.Outsi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534379/ I was wandering through the store today and I saw a sign over a few items on a shelf that said 'Marked Down Price'. I began to think on that. I wondered to myself why those things had been marked. They had been deemed unfit to be placed among other items just like them. They had been 'Marked' beca.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534378/ I wrote this at age 13:Through my window the stars shone brightly.Upon them I'd wish with my heart open widely.My desires took flight on wings of chance.Hoping beyond hope to be real at last.As years would go by, my wishes would grow,My heart ever open for my wanting to flow.And then the day came .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534377/ I want what was taken from meI want it backI want every smileEvery laughEvery moment of joyEvery peaceful eye closeI want back my innocenceI want revenge upon those who ripped out my heartI want revenge on those who burned it in the fires of hateI want revenge on painRevenge on hateRevenge on demo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534375/ I am the daughter of time He came and stole awayThat dayThat fateful dayWhen he took everything from me.I am the mother of sorrowWho gave birth to his fortuneThat dayThat fateful day When he took everything from me.I am the keeper of the memoryHe left me to live every momentThat dayThat fateful da.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534036/ I see it's power all around me.Unstoppable, untamed.This wind.I cannot run from itI cannot hide from it.It is immortal.It carries each of us.Every sigh we make with each emotion. The breath we take with each day.Each exhale joins the body of the wind.We come together.Strangers are forever intertwi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534029/ My mask is goneMy mask of forgivenessI can no longer look with blind eyes upon your wrong.Pain is my only gift from youNothing can make me turn from it anymoreBlood and tears have been the only bond between usYou gave me my maskTo hide yourself from meI can not live with this anymoreI can not surviv.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534028/ I was watching a program on television and a man with a microphone was asking passersby on the street what they were afraid of. Some said spiders, a few said snakes and others named a few more wee beasties, but most of the people said that they were afraid to die. They were afraid of death. I star.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534027/ Today it was gone.The spirit.The sounds.The presence.It was gone.Things are so empty now.Not quite right.So much is different.I feel so empty now.Without it I feel so empty now.Without her I feel so empty now. She just walked away.Walked away and left us behind.She made us be without her.Without h.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534025/ In my hands lay the pieces of my heart.Broken, ripped, and torn.Just pieces, old, unkempt.They are useless.I can not bring myself to throw them away.I keep holding them,Trying to fit them back together.They don't.The pieces are worn and weathered.They don't fit anymore.They are different now.They .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534024/ I have failed.I have lost again.Why do I keep doing this?I keep trying but why?I know what will happen.Why do I put myself through this?I keep setting myself up to sink lower and lower into myself.I hate that. I hate this.I hate everyone and no one.I hate everything and nothing.I failed again.How .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534023/  The most beautiful place I have ever been is in the realm between dreams and reality. Not asleep and not awake. A level in the middle. A world between worlds. Where every sound I hear outside my dreams finds a way inside them. Where I can no longer tell if where I am and what I see and feel .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534021/ Why can't the 'Bad Guys' or 'Villains' ever win?Who decides who the 'Bad Guys' or 'Villains' are in the first place?Sometimes hero's need to lose to stay hero's.Sometimes hero's need to lose to stay human.Is that why there are so few hero's left,Because they are never allowed to fail?Don't humans .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534018/ Today is a gray day,Clouds are everywhere.The rain is coming in the distance,It's scent comes to meet me.I see the lightning in the sky outlining every shade,Every wisp, giving life to the shadows below.I see the wind moving the leaves, the grass in the field.Rushing to catch any and all that run .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534017/ They say a picture is worth one thousand words. I wonder what picture they were looking at when they said that. Was it a picture of a man whose home is a box next to a dumpster in an old, dirty alley in the city? Perhaps it was a picture of a young girl with a decision to make, save a life or turn.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534016/ I was sitting in my closet today and I was thinking about the past. All the things I used to do and all the things I thought were my life. I began to think of how differently I viewed things back then, how closed my mind was. I also thought about the friends I used to have. I remember the days of .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534015/ I went to the cliff today, and I jumped.I looked out over the water, steely gray and cold. The depths seem to summon me, beckon me to their icy core. "Come to me" I hear the sea whisper in the wind. The sea, she calls to me, calling to me to join her again, to return to my home beneath the surface.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534014/  This crimson flower that flows in my veins. So beautiful, so warm and delicious. From my skin it flows so freely, as free as I wish my spirit could be. Freedom, the wings that the pain and blood give me. I soar above all. My freedom, my crimson freedom. The smell, it makes me close my eyes a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534013/ If I could be anything, I would be the wind. That way I would be with all those who will think of me after I die. When the wind moved their hair, it would be me running my fingers through it. When the wind touched their cheek, it would be me caressing them one last time. When the wind brought to t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534011/ Leave me alone with your encouraging words. Leave me alone with your expectations, your parental guidance. Leave me alone with your need of a role model. Leave me alone with your words of criticism, rebuke, and gossip. Leave me alone with your future plans. Leave me alone with your ideas of right .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534010/ Come to me tonight. Come to me in the light of the moon, silent and confident.Come to me through my window, the door to my world. Come to me as a lover, a bringer of peace. Come to me in the dark and touch my body, my mind, my heart. Come to me and touch me like a shadow, icy, soft and beautiful.C.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534008/  I must not give inI must keep goingOne more stepI must not give upI must keep goingOne more stepI must survive this lifeI must keep goingOne more stepI must look for the sunI must keep goingOne more stepI must make it through this nightmareI must keep goingOne more stepI must live this painI m.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534006/  I asked myself today why I am ashamed of myself. When did I start to think of myself as not being good enough or not up to par? I look around me and I see so many who will not meet my eyes because they feel ashamed of themselves like I do. Why is this? Why do we feel this way? I do not want .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534004/ We lie here together, side by side, staring at each other between the flashes of our lives. Our hearts blood running from our veins and joining together on the bathroom floor. Just as our blood becomes one here so our souls will be one on the other side. We are the last thing each other sees befor.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/534002/ I think about your soft skin and I die.I think about your sweet kiss and I die.I think about your light touch and I die.I think about your eyes staring into mine and I die.I think about your heart in my hands and I die.I think about me saying I love you and I die.I think about you saying you love .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533999/ Take my hand and walk with meThrough the forests of demons,Through the mountains of shadows,Through the valleys of death.Take my hand and walk with me Past the boundaries of our bodies,Past the limits of our minds,Past the constrictions of time.Take my hand and runaway with meFrom this place of pa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533998/ The iron gates stand before me,Guarding the bodies within.I enter in this garden of my love. The rows are dull and quiet.No color, no life.My dreams no longer bloom.My hopes no longer grow.Flowers of my life are dead and gone.I take the lily of my heart into my hand.My fingertips brush the wilted .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533997/ No matter where you go I will find you,If it takes a thousand years.No matter where you go I will believe in you,If it takes my last heart.No matter where you go I will love you,If it takes my last breath.No matter where you go I will wait for you,If it takes my last will.No matter where you go I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533996/ Two people can live at the same point in time, but never know that the other existed. To live so separated and distanced from each other, lives so very far apart. Different but living in the same world and the same time. Then to be thrown together, maybe by chance or fate, suddenly aware of each o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533994/ Dear Me,Another night has passedAnother tear falls on our pillowAnother rip in our heartAnother hole in our mindOur hands curl in painClaws against an invisible lidOur heart brings the sides in closerOur coffin buried inside usOur stomach turns in fearKnotted and twisted in agonyWe lay hear in the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533992/ I wish I could travel back in time and go watch the freak shows of the old circuses. I would love to have met the Bearded Lady. I think she is so beautiful; a living, breathing example of true beauty. Beauty is true and wonderful when we look for it. I would love to have just sat and watched her. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lone-Shadow/533841/