Three Shadows

It knows my name, it knows my face
Every scar I tried to waste
I feel it now, I always do
It was here before I knew

The room feels full when I’m alone
Like something settled in my bones
No footsteps, no breath in the air
Just the sense it’s always there
It never rushes, never speaks
It watches patterns, counts the weeks
I don’t feel fear, I don’t feel chased
Just a record time won’t erase

I closed the door, I drew the line
Still it waits on the other side

It knows my name, it knows my face
Three shadows never break their pace
They keep the cost I couldn’t choose
It was here before I knew

It saw the choices, felt the cost
The things I kept, the things I lost
It stood still when I moved on
Counted nights I called it gone
No judgment in its quiet stare
No mercy in its quiet care
It doesn’t fade, it doesn’t move
It remembers what I survived

I grew stronger, learned control
Still it knows the parts I don’t

Not a ghost, not a guide
Not the past I buried alive
It’s the weight that made me choose
The piece of me I couldn’t lose

It knows my name, it knows my face
Three shadows never break their pace
They keep the cost I couldn’t choose
It was here before I knew

It knows my name, it knows my truth
Three shadows see it all the way through
I don’t fight it, I don’t move
It was here before I knew