The Ghost of Loneliness

[GimmyDiamond]

I am not lonely
I am the ghost of loneliness

Robed in pallor
A crown of tangled tresses
Jagged, dry lips, licked in anticipation

I gave my life away
Freely, freely
To any and all
Life desires life
And where there is none . . .

Bare feet whisper
To the redwood floor
Eyes adrift in shadow

Silence swallows the moments
I dare not breathe

I, the ghost of loneliness
You, the phantom of life
Touching . . . never touching
I thought you could . . .

And I, the ghost of loneliness
Find life in tender wrists

[GimmyDiamond]

The distance from me to you - a reach-
but beyond touching

Speaking because we cannot talk
to each other

Wounds beyond healing
broken
bridge
over around away

Everything I'm not saying
Bending to a will beyond
my own

Don't you know

Drifting, slipping
through fingers
Never aching to hold more

Inevitable - the doll with the broken
face
Pretty fake smile for a picture

Then you run

And where you
left me

The
shelf's
too
high

The


shelf's



too




high





And I'm just another broken child
Who jumped too many times

[Triskele]

heavy, but nice, i liked your idea of stretching out the last few lines of the second poem (which seems almost a continuation of the first). well done and keep on posting

[GimmyDiamond]

Thanks Triskele . . . I played around with those lines, tried them like 20 different ways . . . but yeah, I like how it turned out. Thanks for reading and taking the time to respond :)