Ghost of Adolescence

Uncounted miles trodden since I last breathed your guise That dulcet voice that tortured me slowly faded from memory Still it calls to me from distances undiscovered Pulling me from my sleep drawing me into the void Filling me with a conceptive warmth too unreal That face twenty years past fills my closed eyes with its vice That boy I was is an indistinct shadow now But his heart remains a whip upon my back still able to sting Holding the ability to draw that which I’ve bled a host of times Asking that which has no response Filling the moments with regret and anguish Does your memory torture you as you inflict upon me? Can you hear me imploring you in your sleep? After all this time and through all these miles Does a cinder remain in you resonating who I once was? Do you ever reflect on what we could have become Have you seen those two blurry phantoms? Walking as one upon unpaved highways I’ve both cherished and mourned for you Holding you captive in the closet of my childhood You remain a hidden gem that only I marvel Without you I am an unfinished puzzle of a man You eternally survive as that which you were fated That rough cut diamond I couldn’t jeweler My first love…my perfection My ghost