Beyond my Shadow.

   Beyond my Shadow
    _______________

You're dead to me!
I scream,..to the worst
part of Myself.

(And may the Next
Dead Thing be
born The Same.)

From your beginning
you have been A Curse,
and curses only Breed more
Curses to Feed!

(since curses are
always wretched,
hungry things.)

I would have
died for you
(once) before
you Killed Me;
yet now you
can Die for all
I Care.

And please
know that
Nothing
will ever
take away
The Memories
of those
Horrors that
we shared!

(But it might
be easier for
me to See Beyond
My Shadow if
it isn't There.)

J.Stephen.H