The shy blond shadow

(A/N: I seem to be stuck on Tamora Pierce very much at the moment, but this is another challenge from The Dancing Dove. We're to write a poem of unrequited love between characters. This is actually quite slashy and depressing. Yes, I know. It's a poem from a shadow to his one true love. The 'shadow' actually dies later on the year that the poem is written. Please be warned that I suck at poetry.)

Your Shadow

From the moment we met I knew,
I'd love you in the end.
Rather than confess, I was shy and followed you;
I let people assume that the adoration was as a friend.

I know that you are always there
For I am right behind you;
A happy face topped with curly hair,
matched with a voiced opinion that is always true.

You fell ill first,
And I was there, by your side;
My love, I fear the worst.
Who will shadow you, when I've died?

Aye, so forbidden and one-sided was our love;
but know, dear one, I will still watch you from above.