this is a road I've never taken
a clean road Heaven paved for me
I never knew that we would spiral down
from what seemed a perfect private world
torn by the polar lives we live
But now I'm forced to stand on my own
choose my own paths
walk my own steps
but underneath the sunlit sky
your dark shadow lies beneath me
replacing my own
lifting me above the ground that I
clumsily stumble upon.
walking alongside me,
you still teach me to the path of life
with your shadow of my past

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