A footstep echoes in the night,
A shadow just beyond my sight.
Silent whispers, never near,
But always close enough to hear.

Eyes that watch, but never blink,
A presence just beyond the brink.
I feel it when I’m all alone,
It's like someone’s carved me into stone.

I walk the streets, but not alone,
A stranger claims me as their own.
In every glance, in every stare,
I sense them hiding somewhere there.

The world once felt so wide, so free,
Now every corner traps me.
No locks can keep the fear away,
When darkness follows day by day.

But though you haunt me, you won’t see,
The strength that grows inside of me.
Even though you watch, you cannot take
The fire I’ll one day awake.