I’m drowning in the sea
My ship is sinking
No life jackets
No debris to hold onto
No S.OS.
No help is coming
I can not save myself
I can only hope
The sharks come quickly
And devour me
Without mercy
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Drowning by Idgie Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
I wanted to love
And be loved
To be seen and heard
Now I know
These things
Are Not for one
Such as me
I stay on the fringes
Haunting a house
I have never lived in
A tired ghost
Forever longing
For the life
That never was
Not knowing my
Death had already come
To me in my
Sleep long ago
I reach out my hands
And find nothing
People passing through me
As if I were mist
Acknowledging me
With a mere shiver
Forever bound to life
Yet never living
Searching for something
I can never know
Finding it yet
Never possessing it
Always fighting the urge
To become the poltergeist
Throwing tantrums
To punish those who
Live the life
I have always wanted
You move through existence
no one noticing except
when the dishes need washing
or the laundry folded
you think about your past life
memories of dreams before
reality kicked you in the face
and left you bleeding in the street
you wonder what happened
to that person who made the plans
to dig up dinosaur bones and travel
living life to the fullest
replaced by the sad specter
you see in the mirror
floating through the life
you have been haunting
you meet new people
rattle your chains to be noticed
you start to live vicariously
through others’ achievements
only experiencing temporary joy
as you begin to wonder
if any one would notice
your absence
then realize that the space
you occupied would quickly
be filled by a warmer
body than yours
the void only being felt
when the dishes needed washing
or the laundry folded
since you are only a Ghost
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Ghost by Idgie Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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