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ghost writer

by aviendha-goodrich

Shake up your bones And pluck your veins In hopes for a rhythm, or a melody. The body is your medium Between the mind of the soul And the crushing reality None of us can comprehend the same. You can still find inspiration in rotting corpses- Keep your tombstones to yourself. The only things constant in life are change and death. Invisible languages that only the mad can hear Make them prophets in their own eyes, And insane in ours. My mother Spoke to Lucifer. She was dead before her body gave Her eyes were shallow, empty There is nothing Like talking To the soulless body of someone Who you gave you life. I am haunted by the deceased. They do not come in physical form, They do not come in my dreams. They do not come to bring me harm, They do not come to bring me peace. They come in spurts when my fingers Set sail over the pages, or the screen, They come into my words when I can't hear myself think. I do not write for me anymore, I write for ghosts.
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21 / Cisgender Female
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Written by
aviendha-goodrich
21 / Cisgender Female
Published
Nov 13, 2017
Time
2m
Tags
#existential#death#ghost#dead#writing
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