I hunt your shadow

in every crack and crevice,

into boundless depths

of my forsaken heart.

 

I run a daredevil race,

chasing the ebbing tide,

just to stay alive

in this drunken love.

 

Since the day you left

I was stripped bare,

bereft of breath,

of soul, and self—

nothing left

but the echo of your shadow.

 

©2026, Vasiliki Papadopoulou

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