Ghost

I sit here and contemplate you

You overcome every thought

Consume me

Dread, anxiety, fear boils up

I spill

You echo through the empty rooms of my mind

I’m hollow

The poltergeist of memories

The reels play over and over in my head

There’s no end

You haunt me with what could have been

A ghost of what I dreamed

I’m tired

Reality will never meet the hopes that fill my heart

I sit here endlessly living out my misery

It won’t stop

I wear the skin of someone jubilant

Inside, the melancholy knot of existence lives

It’s dark

My attempt to move forward

Cleanse the past and rid myself of uncertainty

Don’t look back

- Shantece G.