Shadow

I saw a shadow lying across the floor
as I entered my bedroom.
It did not seem to move.
But as I approached,
it breathed.
I think it was waiting for me.
The way it breathed, the way it sat...
as if it had been there for hours
and was comfortable.
As I got closer, it seemed to move toward me
though I can't specifically remember seeing it move.
Perhaps I was seeing thing...
Perhaps my psychosis had finally caught up with me...
But I know now what that shadow was.
I know now why it came.
It was waiting for me.
It did come for me.
It came to take me away.
The only question now is...
why didn't it?
And why does that fact make me so sad?