--- title: Nothing Else Matters date: 2008-05-18T05:30:24Z modified: 2008-05-18T11:49:10Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/nothing-else-matters/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 200 categories: - Life Poems - Love Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-05-18T11:49:10Z tags: - Life Poems - Love Poems --- i watched the shadow slowly engulfing my happiness part of me wanted to go away while the other part wanted to stay and put up a brave fight a fight that will either leave me dead or a fight that will allow me to live i cannot [run](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/running-dark.md) forever i cannot hide it forever when i look into the eyes i can see a love restrained a [desire](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/my-hearts-desire.md) to live a desire…. something had been taken from deep inside the secret that i once kept locked from all is now out in the open sometimes i remember the darkness from the past wishing for it to disappear only to reappear again and again only if i had the powers i would take back the pain only if i had the powers i would retrace all the wrong moves now frozen here in shock i could only watch with helplessness something in my heart telling me its time to face the shadow and leave it all behind leave the past behind my happiness is right within my grasp and i am still stuck in the past a past that i cannot change anymore slowly, my fears subside while the shadows still linger i know the happiness is still within my reach so, never mind [the darkness](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) still can find a way cos [nothing](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/without-you-nothing.md) lasts forever ——— **alternate ending** slowly, my fears subside while the shadows still linger i know the happiness is still within my reach Never opened myself this way Life is ours, we live it our way All these [words I don’t just say](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/do-i-have-to-say-the-words-original.md) And nothing else matters ————————————————————————– note: this is a continuation of the previous poem – [Crawling](/crawling-part-2-of-the-poem-shadow/) Lines inspired by - November [Rain” by “Guns n Roses”](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-rose-in-the-rain.md) - Some songs by “Linkin Park” - “Brothers in Arms” by “Dire Straits” - Title is inspired by the song “Nothing Else Matters” by “Metallica” - the alternate [ending lines are from the song “Nothing](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/end-of-nothing.md) Else Matters” by “Metallica