Shadowed

I am your dark side
I am darkness when you are light
And of our interaction,
Light can only touch shadow at its edge:

I have given and you have received caustic love
Followed the road
Straight
Straight
The wrongest way.

I go where you do not even risk dreaming
In case you never allow yourself
To sleep again
To see a deeper shadow in your own sleepy eyes
Than I have ever been
For you.

Over desperate dominion
I ward
The death angel
Who's never killed
My touch invokes only one phrase
'That was not the plan.'
Hugging the Key to the Black City to my body
Since it offers me all as a shadow
I could never reach.
Frustration might drive me deeper into myself.
And you and me aren't any more than our garb,
Still I wish what I've not sought well.