the shadow’s vow

your shadow is always with you, even when the sun goes away and you can’t see it

i still reach for you, my sun,
even here -
where the light has folded into dusk.

your warmth lingers in me like an echo,
a soft hum stitched beneath my skin.
you think i vanish when you go,
but love -
i am only resting in your absence,
waiting for your golden pulse to return.

when night swallows your light,
i trace your name through the dark air,
press your glow into memory,
hold it like a promise between my palms.

i am not gone.
i am simply unseen -
a devotion that breathes without light,
a pulse that follows where you cannot look.

and when you rise again,
i will be there,
curling at your feet,
grateful to be known
once more.

Author's Note

i wrote two versions of this piece…here is the first…thank you for reading!