Shadow

"Stop following me", I screamed.
I am scared,
I am worried,
I am crying inside to help me.
"Please don't", I shout,
But no one to rescue me.
I feel I'm invisible to them,
I don't exist is what they think.
Darkness frightens me,
It kills me,
I force myself to sleep,
Every night.
Every night,
I hope I don't get scared tomorrow,
But no,
The same thing happens the next day.
Have I gone mad?
Am I guilty of doing something?
I see this black figure walking along with me,
Every time, everywhere.
I'm scared of my own shadow!
Why you ask?
All I can answer is I don't know.
A sense of lost identity keeps following me,
And I'm trying to move on,
But alas! Nothing has changed!
~Aarthi.N