Apr 28, 2016 #Couplets, Original Poetry, Rhymed couplets

In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt:  Solitude

Haunted by Solitude
©April 28th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

And where I go, she goes
And everything she knows.

And when I sing, she sings
The song of beginnings

And when I play, she plays
She never goes away

And when I smile, she smiles
(Please leave me for a while!)

And when I cry, she cries
She’ll be silent when I die.

She’s always by my side
She stamps out all my pride

My muscles knot and twist
And dreams I can’t resist.

And she, my shadow-self
Stares from her shadow-shelf

Wills me to stay awake
Bids me my thirst to slake

Somewhere within, she lurks
And I, her puppet, jerk.

So, why am I alone
Holding sadness like a stone?

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