Shadow breaks my heart

shadow breaks my heart
it's true,
nothing before would do,
then you
came,
kept coming,

the journey of a pale rider
has ne'r been so dark.

I packed saddlebag with days provision
and setting my covered face like stone,
I left my croft and headed due north.
the incessant cold gnawed at my nerves
and by the time I arrived I was frayed to bits
yet you, arms open wide and much more beside,
caught me clear
and eased my troubled mind.


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