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# Into My World, A Shadow Falls
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/into-my-world-a-shadow-falls/
- Published: 2018-01-15T01:12:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T01:54:08.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Relationships, #Castle Marrach

Into my world, anew, a darkness drew —  
Fell, near burning fires, a shadow’s gaze  
Upon my weary count'nance; and I knew:  
This shadow's grip would claim me, all my days  
  
And stole into my mind and heart, it's true;  
Gave up to me the secrets of its ways;  
And promised shining things: the morning's dew  
Could never shine so bright, nor yield such praise  
  
And still, my mind and heart were warmed anew,  
A wav'ring shadow wandered in its plays  
Until a darker threat ran its soul through:  
Pure jealousy chilled the shadow to such craze  
  
And madness, took the shadow's mind and blew  
A word of banishment to me, did itself faze  
When love eternal, promised I to you;  
Retreated beyond life, into its haze —  
  
But, what, pray tell, are gentle souls to do  
When anger only turns a soul to blaze,  
For shadows grow in strength and number too...  
Obscure, oblique.... *This life is but a maze..*.  
  
And I am lost, and all the shadows, too.  
Should I find on my skin thy sharpened blades  
And find my silken skin turn tanned to blue  
'Fore I would e'er journey to dark malaise  
  
... Though shadow distantly, coldly withdrew,  
Though shining heart is mine, my soul ablaze,  
I find shadow nor I can yet undo  
What binding tied our souls, those fateful days