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Your Ghost in My Shell

There is a ghost in your voice

Haunting me through the silence

 

 

 

Through every droplet of memory

Dotting my otherwise starless night

 

I tried to gather them

With my words, my fear, my soul

And yet they remain forever bond

To a place I cannot reach

A being I cannot see

And a love I can never hear

 

Your flowering existence sheds invisible petals

I seem to be able to find

Yet, I'm ever uncertain

All these pieces of your soul

Did you left them for me to find

A breadcrumb trail leading only

To a chance in the future

To an uncertain promise

Or did I just stole the traces

Of your existence you left for the universe

Claiming them as something I could own

 

Should I keep them or scatter them

 

Or are they even yours

Could it be that they are the pieces of my soul

Still clinging on to you

That you're finally shedding away

To be complete on your own

 

What could I do

Standing in pieces

Holding someone's soul

That may or may not be my own

If they weren't

I'd still be missing all the chunks I've given to you

If they were

I'd still be empty

Because

I'm forever hollow without you

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Written by
Yitkbel
33 / Toronto
Published
Sep 2, 2018
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