Shadows play after your light

Once bathed in light, your smile could banish night, Yet shadows linger where your footsteps fade, My heart recalls your warmth, once burning bright, And clings to echoes time and loss have made. The years entwine us, ghost of tender flame, A haunting touch that time cannot unbind, Your name still whispers, though I curse its fame, The dark remembers what the light left blind. Yet memory, cruel keeper of the heart, Turns joy to pain, then pain to joy again, Though time decrees we stand a world apart, Your shade still lingers where my dreams remain. So light and dark together weave their thread, A love half-living, shadow-married, now dead.