Literature: Shadow

i wish you'll see it in my face
but my thoughts you don't see at all
i'm just taking my slow steps home
putting on a face of someone i don't know
but that's someone you think you see

i thought i could light up the room
but my candled flame burned out long ago
i'm just a shadow
walking behind who you think i am

if i can just dissolve my thoughts
i'll walk this path with steady steps
to have that flame making life what it is
and not to walk as this shadow
of a flame that had died long ago

i thought i could light up the room
but my candled flame burned out long ago
i'm just a shadow
walking behind who you think i am

so i'm just walking along thinking
will i just go away fading?
how will i relight this candle
so that i can be true to what you see?