I hide in the shadows
Calm and collect
When I join the light
I'm wild and I'm active
Yet a price of me only sees the ghosts
Of pasts and the future
Where do I hide?
I hide in nook and cranny
I hide where no one can find
I hide in my mind
And in my eyes
I hide in my sleeves
And on my knees
I compact my self into a ball
I can see the walls
I shake in my sleep
And scream when I'm awake
I hide with the shadows
This is my domain
I have claimed the very purpose
Of living whiling hiding
I can't show my true nature
That's for people to bring out
I'm a dragon with the need to collect shining things
And then I'm a tiger
With the need for solitude
I lurk through the darkness and watch
Everyone grows and I shape myself
I'm a serpent and a mammal
Yet everyone thinks I'm evil
I'm not the devil
I'm not a angel
I'm the shadows
Creeping up behind you
And surrounding you
But someone has light and I flinch away
I have my own will
Just let me get away
I snicker at your plans
You forgot I was even there.
Yet only time can command me
For I'm my own hell.
You ask Where do I hide?
I hide where no one looks and no one thinks
I hide in plain sight.
I had in the corner of your eyes
I hide in peoples dream and hopes
I hide where people go to die
I hide in your thoughts
Where do I hide?
I hide in the thought
Of people who want to survive
But only one thing sticks out
The pain of others.