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// Shadows (Luna) 
// Story: Beneath the Mask- A Pony Poetry Compilation 
// by Strawberry Pegasus 
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She had been back for years,
But the shadows still remained.
She could see them in the hidden fear
When her subjects spoke her name.
They covered their feelings in a veil,
But it fell and blew away,
Lifted by the all-seeing winds
Of the fading light of day.

Shadows dwelled in every corner,
Shadows filled each room.
Shadows filled her subjects eyes
And the craters of the moon.
Shadows kept hold of her mind
And whispered through the day,
Shadows hid themselves from the sun,
And the promises she'd made.

They'd told her the shadows were gone,
Forever cleansed from her mind.
Why, then, was she tormented
By the darkness left behind?
They hid themselves in uncertain stares,
And children who feared the night.
Forever whispering in her ear,
Of the day she'd tried to take the light.

The accursed, deceptive shadows,
The shadows she adored.
The shadows that tore her mind apart,
In the sky and on the floor.
Shadows of infinite evil,
Shadows of infinite peace.
Shadows whispering of her sin,
And gently rocking her to sleep.