Song of the Shadow Dwellers

Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@sholto?utm_source=medium&#38;utm_medium=referral">Sholto Ramsay</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&#38;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a><br/><br/>In memory we lose our light,enchanted by the old delightsthat hold us hostage, iron chainsthat hold us, first, without the painsof growing old, of love and loss.We take the bait &#8212; and screw the cost,the years we lose, the ghosts we keep,the secrets we hold, buried deep.<br/><br/>Our freedoms, lost, can be redeemedwith bitter pain &#8212; Oh, how we screamedand rent our clothes and pulled our hairand broke our bodies. Nothing fairwas handed down. We fought our waythrough darkest night to hopeful day. <br/><br/>Get full access to Sonnets &c. at <a href="https://zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast">zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe</a>