Shades

(a prompt from Light and Shade Challenge using the following picture)

I wake, with slumber fogging up my  head

And turn to where your sleeping shadow lies

And stretch my arm across the half cold bed

And miss your eyes, and miss and miss your eyes

Coffee for one, and while the water drips

The light moves slyly and I watch entranced,

Upon the kitchen floor, a cruel eclipse,

The moving shadows of the waltz we danced

I need to clear my thoughts, and breathe fresh air

But in the garden there’s no solace found

In silhouette a summer’s kiss hangs there

Upon the fence, and in the past I’m drowned

The car was coming fast, too fast it sped

A thunderbolt, a kraken on the lane,

Then painted new in Rorschach-inkblot red

It left you there, unmade, in shaded rain

The future’s long and cold.  How can I last

So haunted by the shadows of the past?