Hidden in the Shadows

This isn’t my story, but it is someone’s and so I write…

C.C.O image from Pixabay

She was tired

Of battling her

Demons

The ghosts that

Lingered

In the dark

Hiding in the

Shadows

Wanting to

Come out

And play.

She was weary of

The battle

Trying to

Keep her

Head above

Water

Grief

Hidden in

The shadows

But can you

Really grieve

What you

Never had.

Sometimes she feels

Like a cardboard

Kaleidoscope

The one you

Looked through as

A girl

Seeing shapes

And shadows

And wondering

What they could

Mean.

She knew

The battle

It was the

One she

Had been

Fighting quietly

In the shadows.

(c) Michelle Kidwell

March.15.2021