Your Shadow
I look at you,
drowning in your shadow
You mask what you feel inside
but the sadness shows in your eyes
You try so hard,
but you can’t escape the hole
The ghost that haunts you,
the cloud that hangs above
I try to help you
get out,
survive
But you can’t seem to
escape
BIO: Amanda Basson is almost fourteen years old and wrote this poem a couple of months ago when her mother was going through an illness (she's recovered, thankfully).
