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There are ghosts in my bedroom from memories past,
Things I never mention, from moments that never last.

Ghosts of plenty, for which I can't stand—
In here, they wander and brush past my hand.

Ghosts so many, with no room to breathe,
And so many memories, too many to grieve.

They will tell no one of the things I've done,
Or how they'd end up here, with nowhere to run.

Forever connected from paths that crossed,
They'll never rest peacefully—a rite they've lost.

Someday, all the world will know my role in this place,
When I take into the afterlife the ghosts who keep me company—
That death has a face.
Sasha S Graham Oct 2012
If I looked after the earth,
I'd burn it in passionate flames.
Bones inherit the soil,
not left a soul to claim.

The scent of rotting flesh,
brings essence to the finish
Life becomes extinct --
& so has the world within it.

Rich in confinement,
I slowly grow deranged.
Soon am I to join them,
hearken shrieks of the claimed.

My name is a song to them,
lost to genocide's insanity.
The voices in my head would claim;
"This is your new reality."

The grand rite performed,
& all has been fore-said.
I am to dine and dance --
with the souls of the dead.

— The End —