The Shadowman

Merrymaking and merry-be,
The Shadowman who lives in thee,
When he's had his fill of fun,
He burns, HE burns, The light of the Sun.

His joy is rotten,
His taste gone sour,
The selfpity in him,
The Soul turned Dour.

Emotionless from beginning,
He sees the world in grays and greens,
Sorrow rings from that empty point,
But nothing is there,
A falsehood appoint.

He lives in secrecy,
In the shadows of lies,
His physical self naught but disguise.

He lives in the moment,
Rotting away,
This poison is him,
And it kills him each day.

To be the Shadowman,
He sold and he sold,
Till nothing was left,
Save for the rational bold.

The cynic,
The Deathless,
The children,
Are he,
Shadowman and torment
Are all that he brings.

But the day he dies is never and varied,
He made himself poison,
His Anger, his Creed.

The Shadowman made himself, through rage and loss. He sold the very thing worshipped in present society, and through the events that followed,turned himself into a living corpse, someone rotting from the inside. Self-control is a very important thing to be had. If not for that we as a species would have killed ourselves off from our own emotional poison long ago. Without the understanding of all emotions man has made itself great by teaching others of his kind things they would not learn on their own. Fear, Wrath, Sorrow, Joy, Love, And Peacefulness. Though I desperately wish I could discredit the fifth, Even the cynics such as myself, have to agree that it is one of the most important emotions in our society. But what I must say is that through the aforementioned, many great sights can be seen, but with fair warning, do NOT attempt to cause any two of those emotions to exist at the same time within someone you care about and love. It is a horribly painful experience that cannot be healed. With my little experience I must say, do not create a Shadowman, as, like parasites and viruses, it tends to spread.

"With Control, Man has no equal, Without, He is nothing more than the ape of his ancestors."

Sorry I don't remember exactly where the quote came from but I hold no ownership of this particular quote directly above this line, as it is intended, on my site, for intellectual stimulation.

Signed

ISA