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You came again on a weekday, my oldest friend, and whispered poison talk into my ear, asked me to embrace you, but I could not see you in the darkness, because darkness you were I thought I had killed you, in the smallest rooms in the brightest clinics, then buried you in a book I gave away to another But your ghost would appear to me, a malign presence, that left scars on my arms and bruises on my shins You poltergeist! I wish I could be rid of you, for you mean less to me than God, who abandoned me when I still wore knee socks I want not to hear your voice, your venomous chanting I will not pray to you Your very name makes me shudder Yet when we are alone, you ****** me And when we are with others, you ********** me to the worst of all men You are a little god, who perches inside my ribcage, waiting until my brain comes down, off all its non-prescriptions And then you're here, living in my head, filling me with that emptiness, I can't help but love to hate
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 6:31 AM UTC
Ghost of you
You came again on a weekday, my oldest friend, and whispered poison talk into my ear, asked me to embrace you, but I could not see you in the darkness, because darkness you were I thought I had killed you, in the smallest rooms in the brightest clinics, then buried you in a book I gave away to another But your ghost would appear to me, a malign presence, that left scars on my arms and bruises on my shins You poltergeist! I wish I could be rid of you, for you mean less to me than God, who abandoned me when I still wore knee socks I want not to hear your voice, your venomous chanting I will not pray to you Your very name makes me shudder Yet when we are alone, you ****** me And when we are with others, you ********** me to the worst of all men You are a little god, who perches inside my ribcage, waiting until my brain comes down, off all its non-prescriptions And then you're here, living in my head, filling me with that emptiness, I can't help but love to hate
emma-henderson
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 6:31 AM UTC
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