Amber's Poetry Book

Shadows

i am shadows

living in the dark

waiting

for the light to come

and scoop me up

I didn’t know

I could be saved.

Living in shadows

floating in the tragedy

of hope and wonder

questioning how I became

so trapped

The darkness felt like a box

with no air

no sound

no end

But it taught me

taught me to accept

to sit with the pain

to own my wrongs

to admit my mistakes

and still rise

Now

I am light

Far from the dark

I found hope

not just hope

but myself

And I will never forget

the darkness

that led me to the light

I walked my own shadow through the darkness of my past

I will walk again to follow the light I meant to shine through

differently I'll be too bright to miss

the star In the sky will shine too beam

that will be me

I won't break my shadow for I follow it all my life

it follows behind me like a darkness that clouds my life

I will be the light through these dark nights

my past is the past

my future is what will I become

for I am not my past nor my trauma

I am the light at the end of the tunnel

I am my achievements through my mistakes

I am the light from the darkness

I am the light around my shadows

I will because of me

there isn't another me.