The Ghost

I’ve walked alone in this house Seen things that cannot be explained And in my thirty long years The ghosts have been my only companion And in this service A lone specter rises A woman’s figure in the dark Chills my bones to the core And demands my attention And what of this apparition Who is she, what does she want And I forget what people always do My fists clenched, my face taught I find the strength to speak To the monster in the dark Hoping to get an answer But her anger did I spark Glass shatters, things fly She is enraged, I don’t know why I try to shield myself from the objects flying I scream “I don’t know what you want” She screams at me “You’re lying” In my horror I’m speechless I can’t think what she means I claim I don’t know what you wants She screams The hallways echo now With the screams of the dead I try to run for the door Now they’re in my head This has never happened before Will I soon be dead I cannot leave this house I try to hide instead Nothing is forever In the quiet now, she speaks again “You killed me,” she says I remember now in vivid clarity How once she came and enticed In oppression by a dark obsession Now I know my wrong I grabbed a piece of broken glass and slash my throat Now we are together all eternity long