Photo by Marco Bianchetti on Unsplash

mindlovemiserysmenagerie Photo Challenge #426

You are a shadow
no longer real
dark and mute
flat and weightless
in the sun
dogging my steps
like a stubborn mutt
once you were everything
now you are… not nothing,
but just a foot note,
parenthetical information,
not really pertinent to
the rest of the story.