Monday, 1 May 2023

Our Ghosts Follow

 


Our ghosts

left us here alone,

to roam through

the remote countryside

of solitude.

Destined to blink back tears,

to fear

the lump that chokes

deep in the throat,

as we are about to speak.

The one that makes

you stop dead on your feet,

and let the waves wash over

already sunken drowning eyes,

aware of our solemn silent hymns.

Sung to only ourselves,

or to withdrawn skies

 

Our ghosts.

They live on

in memory and words,

but they don't feel the hurt

recorded in the drip drop tears

their loss causes.

They don't feel the dawn chorus

waking you from a dream,

into a nightmare world,

Where it’s like looking

through a blurred screen,

from all of the pain within

or staring at a painting,

knowing that it

will never enlighten lost eyes.

 

Our ghosts follow us

but are they witness

to the things we do

or the trials we go through?

Do they still think?

Are they placing dreams 

into our heads delicately 

to help us face the day?

Do they pave the way

to help us find ways to stay?

 

Our ghosts.

Every single lost smile,

every tear in the universal sky,

every rose floating by 

on a secluded lake.

Every shadow

that blinks beside the eye,

every stuttered streetlight,

every new insight we make,

every love,

every fight,

Everything we see

twisted through

a different prism of light.

 

 

 


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