i wish you’ll see it in my face
but my thoughts you don’t see at all
i’m just taking my slow steps home
putting on a face of someone i don’t know
but that’s someone you think you see
i thought i could light up the room
but my candled flame burned out long ago
i’m just a shadow
walking behind who you think i am
if i can just dissolve my thoughts
i’ll walk this path with steady steps
to have that flame making life what it is
and not to walk as this shadow
of a flame that…