ghost love

poetry

she is a garden
unlacing herself in vines
stands with summer storms
tied through knots of thorns

cannot escape his hold
haunting down the shrubs
she feels him thundering
her low heartbeat —

awake, he's the ghost
appearing in her dreams at night,
she's seen him there before
singing a gentle lullaby —

impending silence fills her heart
thrumming in her chest
oh, she's longing to shine!
right in his long-lost warmth

the roads stray far as
one horizon's line
she yearns to roam!
where the murmurs

sought the two of them,
once more, once more
into nothingness
voids of love —

she'll take all
he's willing to give
if only a shadow lurking
against her softened branches

hanging limply just by,
defeated, she closes her eyes
he gazes elsewhere
but he's still there, still there.

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