--- title: Escape into the Shadows date: 2011-07-31T15:04:25Z modified: 2011-08-01T08:14:23Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/escape-into-the-shadows/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1144 categories: - Sad Poems tags: - Sad Poems - pain - sad - shadows featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Escape-into-the-Shadows.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2011-08-01T08:14:23Z --- I tried too hard ![Escape into the Shadows](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Escape-into-the-Shadows.jpg "Escape into the Shadows") to be noticed, I tried to be someone I was not; waiting and waiting I watch [time slowly tick away](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/as-time-ticks-away.md) as another day dawns I watch the world scurry around; I [wanted](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/most-wanted-man.md) to be someone, I wanted to be famous, I wanted life and I wanted love; I wanted a lot of things that were out of reach as I sink in slowly under the weight of expectations; I tried to be what they wanted me to be, I tried to be what I was not meant to be; I tried too hard I pushed too far and I went too far; with a forced smile, and a fake laughter to cover my tracks I escape into the shadows and try to fight this one out, **all alone;**