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Created on: January 25, 2009
If you see me lurking in the shadows
Leave me be among my thoughts and
Ignore my footprints in the snow
Fair darkness dances where I go
But let me fall like grain of sand
If you see me lurking in the shadows
As falling leaves fly as winds blow
I take the dwindling light in hand
Ignore my footprints in the snow
Please I beg you do not throw
My broken body to the ground
If you see me lurking in the shadows
And ever present you will know
I am here to walk the land
Ignore my footprints in the snow
I implore you friend don't be my foe
Don't turn around and give commands
If you see me lurking in the shadows
Ignore my footprints in the snow
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