Shadow Search II

[patgund]

Shadow Search II

Waking, rising, greet the dawn,
Try not to think of what has gone.
Bitter ashes, greet your day
So begins the shadow search, the shadow search.

Wander though a colorless day,
greet the other ghosts in your way,
Ignore the tearing within your heart
Don't hold back the shadow search, the shadow search.

Night time comes, so it starts again,
feeling the pain within your skin.
With trembling heart, you start again,
beginning the shadow search, a shadow search.

You find a fellow haunted soul.
Bite back the urge to tell them all,
For in your world you're the only one,
following the shadow search, the shadow search.

Skin on skin, envelop and surround,
Feigning passion, counterfeit love.
With contempt and practice you fool them all,
Within your shadow search, within your shadow search.

Regretful tears fill your eyes,
Regretful memory of what's gone by.
You fall into the arms of your lover-false,
bleeding from your shadow search, your shadow search.

Cold grey morning, another harsh dawn,
Another nights foul loving, finally done.
"Love me forever, just don't say the words"
Lost in the shadow search, do shadows search?

- Patrick McKinnion
(copyright 1994 and 1999)