Ghosts

empty corridors

creak

under the weight

of restlessness

groaning walls

corroding

paper thin

to dust

to ashes

as ashes sweep

on the wind

it does not rest

it does not ease

my mind

a place

a time

condemned

to history

in memory

of laughter

smiles

friendship

somewhere

now nowhere

as clocks

tick

and tock

to no one

footsteps

echo

repeat

and fall flat

in shadows

of life

outlived

once loved

too much

now ghosts

are all that remain

of you

of them

and us

stained

in sufferance

disjointed

as leaves

on a tree

in the autumn

they know

their destination

it's no surprise

when they fall

why do we

have to fall

more than leaves

this hurts

limitless

but never boundless

forever

was just a word

from hollywood

for the dreamers

who dared

and offered

salvation

it wasn't true

it was just a dream

that crashed

and burned

and died

a child

once believed

and cried

because he could

he knew

no better

it was innocence

it was freedom

it was lost

or was it stolen

as we all are

and have been

just raped

by this world

and there you were

with sunshine

pouring

from your heart

the stars

chasing down

your heels

at midnight

you run

breathless

whilst i cry

because i can

and you stopped

to dry my tears

My first piece of poetry in about ten months, it's been a long time coming. I appreciate the poem may seem somewhat dark and foreboding but in reality it's a poem of friendship and love; that's the tale it's telling. I'm most definitely not in a bad mood, it's quite the opposite in fact and that's exactly where the poem is at. All the darkness that surrounds it is blown away by the last verse, blown away by the light. It's a story of the last two days - of girlfriend leaving, man it hurt so bad to say goodbye and I cried and she helped dry my tears. But it's not the end, I saw her again today and hopefully we'll see each other lots in the future too. For girlfriend, you mean so much, with love xxxxxxxxxxxxx.