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Your Shadow

It's time to suit up and face the world. The outfit I choose will be my armor against the day and will be what I project to the world. May I be adequately protected from the evils that wait for me. May my energetic field keep other people's negativity away.


May I protect myself on the outside so that people can't see what I hold inside. They will only know the me that I let them see. I admit it, I hide the real me so that the world doesn't see my vulnerabilities. May my shadow and I walk in an aura of safety.


I have learned through life that vulnerabilities get you hurt, and the world is cruel. There are people out there that exploit those vulnerabilities for their gain. To make themselves seem like they are more than they are. They, too, put on a mask to present the world. We all do it, it's how we hide the parts of ourselves we don't want other people to see.

But how do we know when we are letting our perceived notions of what other people think, decide what is best for us?


This happens in relationships, jobs, medical appointments, financial decisions. There is always someone else telling us what is good for us. Where does that stop? It most certainly doesn't. If it isn't parents, teachers, employers, the government and society, to tell us what we can and can't do? When it comes to our own emotional well-being, we certainly are quick to hand over our own power, aren't we? We don't even check in with ourselves for a second opinion.


How shameful is it that we wake up each day and hide our own potential so that others can't knock us down. We hold ourselves back, so we don't hurt the ones we love; but the reality of it is, at the end of the day, growth brings changes and change brings, well changes that don't always bring us to the original destination. If we stay stagnant, we die.


It turns out that we all have an expert on self-living inside ourselves. The voice in your head that you carry on with when trying to find a solution to the problem? Or the response in your body when you go against your own better judgements because you sought outside validation? The coincidences that have saved you in times that were meant to break you.


The gift of Intuition. The knowing in how to get ready for the day you are about to have. I'm learning to listen to mine more. I have met my intuition in the flesh! It resides in my shadow. The one I know I can count on to hear my fears in the light and still hold my hand in the dark. My shadow knows all my secrets, fears and dreams. It is in the shadow; I found a kink in my armor.


My shadow will share a secret with you if you look in my eyes and see what's really going on inside, and not just in a glazed over glance, as you judge what you think you see. I will share another secret with you and set another piece of myself free.


I am afraid to show the world the real me for I will be judged for doing it authentically. Automatic judgements based on a perceived reality. My shadow knows a truth that I can't get to. Maybe that is the something more we are all looking for, just a moment of truth in our own skin.  I am afraid of my own light. There it is, I said it. I am scared to death of what I have to offer this world. So, I let what other people think of me, hold me back from sharing the light I hold inside. Instead, I give the world chaos and stormy weather.


It is said that there are three sides to every story; yours, theirs and then the truth which is somewhere in between. Your shadow knows the truth. The collective is waiting for us to step out of our shadows and into our light. We just have to meet each other where we are, we all can't grow at the same speed. No two flowers or trees grow at the same speed.


Here is the thing though, if I wait for you to catch up to me, I will miss things that are meant for me in this life, and you will always be in my shadow. If I keep chasing the dreams you've laid out for me, then I have dulled my shine by living in yours.


I have been comfortable keeping my light inside until the stress of trying to keep up caught up to me. Ambition is a hell of a high. Who am I to be or do something more than I already am? But what if I have found this amazing light inside that is just waiting for the space to shine.


My shadow is waiting for love to make the world kind. Until then, I will sit with my shadow and wait for the sun to provide me the courage to give this world the love I hold inside. It's just not the time to shine. My shadow knows that for all the rain I've brought, there is as much love that can cause a drought. I must learn to balance the two.


May my shadow provide protection from the light as to not prevent you from finding your own.



Love, Light and Shadows,


"Your Shadow" can be found in the "In the Shadows" Collection


 
 
 

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