Lost in Shadows

Silent shadows, heavyhearted days

Lost in the echoes of words left unsaid

Larkin, a name etched deep in my mind

A friend so true, yet I couldn't see behind

The smiles, the quiet, the unspoken pain

Now I wander through memories, feeling the rain

Should have been the voice to catch his fall

Climbed the walls he built so tall

Now the silence screams in the night

Wishing I had fought harder, stayed in the fight

Gone too soon, taken away

From a world that needed him to stay

In the darkness, he did hide

Lost in the shadows, tears we cried

Larkin, oh, why did you go?

Leaving us with questions we won’t know

Hold on tight, don’t slip away

We miss you more each passing day

If only I could turn back time

To see the signs, to read the signs

To reach across the silent line

To pull him back, to see him shine

Now I carry your memory near

A reminder to hold loved ones dear

Larkin, forever in our hearts

A precious soul, a missing part