Shadow

She walks along the midnight sidewalk, wondering where her shadow has gone. Nothing surrounds her. Silence and plain black sky is all that she can sense. She is worried. Her shadow is gone and she can no longer hide her true self. He walks by, he sees her in her purest form. She turns away from him. Ashamed. Frightened. He stops and stares.

Light returns and she has found her shadow again. He returns to find her. This time, she looks happier. She wears a smile, but the girl he saw last night is in her shadow, following his footsteps home. She can’t see, and he can’t see her. She’s trying hard to be someone that she doesn’t even know.

She’s lost. Just like her shadow.