Haunted ghosts host our waking hours
during sleep they transport us to places
indescribable by human words.
The ghosts lean on door posts
watching us, remembering their corporeal selves
Wanting to be warm blooded again.
Orchid scented air announce their presence
Morbid thoughts clog our senses
Do we remember them?
Do we want to remember them?
They are dead, long departed
Long deported off this realm.
Halted thoughts gloat at our minds
How those haunted ghosts once chortled,
fondled, and dawdled along.
Long dead; these ghosts are haunted
Not by us the living,
but the memories of them we bring.
Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 7:55 PM UTC
Haunted ghosts host our waking hours
during sleep they transport us to places
indescribable by human words.
The ghosts lean on door posts
watching us, remembering their corporeal selves
Wanting to be warm blooded again.
Orchid scented air announce their presence
Morbid thoughts clog our senses
Do we remember them?
Do we want to remember them?
They are dead, long departed
Long deported off this realm.
Halted thoughts gloat at our minds
How those haunted ghosts once chortled,
fondled, and dawdled along.
Long dead; these ghosts are haunted
Not by us the living,
but the memories of them we bring.
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