Ghost Woman
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Category:
Poetry › Free Verse
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
1
Views:
625
Reviews:
2
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
Disclaimer:
This is a work of poetry. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
Ghost Woman
Ghost Woman
I have died and found
My self here amongst
The mountains
Not in heaven
Or hell
But some strange purgatory
Part of me still haunts
My former home,
My soul still
Roaming my house
Ghost fingers stroking
The beloved volumes
Dusting the spines of my books.
Does my shade passing
In the night cause my
Children to stir in their
Sleep and moan or call out?
Maybe I always was a
Ghost woman
Ineffectual
At comforting the sick,
Balancing the check book,
Or the thousand other task
Expected of wife and mother.
No warm blooded flesh
Should be lost on you;
Or how else could I
Rising like a mermaid
From the sea of bed clothes
To greet you at night
Warm, nude, and burning
With love
Be denied
Time and time again
If I was not
But some dream reflection
Of a myth?
S. Lloyd
I have died and found
My self here amongst
The mountains
Not in heaven
Or hell
But some strange purgatory
Part of me still haunts
My former home,
My soul still
Roaming my house
Ghost fingers stroking
The beloved volumes
Dusting the spines of my books.
Does my shade passing
In the night cause my
Children to stir in their
Sleep and moan or call out?
Maybe I always was a
Ghost woman
Ineffectual
At comforting the sick,
Balancing the check book,
Or the thousand other task
Expected of wife and mother.
No warm blooded flesh
Should be lost on you;
Or how else could I
Rising like a mermaid
From the sea of bed clothes
To greet you at night
Warm, nude, and burning
With love
Be denied
Time and time again
If I was not
But some dream reflection
Of a myth?
S. Lloyd