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Ghost Story

You made me your home and when you left I became a haunted house. No one wants to live in something that has been cursed. No one wants broken shutters or cracked beer bottles or just a hell of a lot of boiling blood. No one wants to try and fix the broken ones. Everyone seems to head the warning sings- get out I might break down. They make fun of me and whisper as if I’m a ghost story, but they are afraid that I might hear them. They are afraid that maybe they are Wrong. I wasn’t drunk, neither was he. I saw a thousand murdered souls in his hands every time he hit me. He broke all the furniture I had, he threw stones at my windows and he laughed as ricketed off the roof. I can hear my glass shatter into a thousand shining dimes on the floor. Sometimes when I tip toe around the barren rooms I can still hear them. I can still hear his laughter and it rings in my basement even when I’m covering my ears. But no one comes in here. I bode in my white dress because I’m trying to convince myself that there was never any blood. There was never me screaming out my eyes in that basement. There was only this. This quiet twilight dream. My face is pale because haven’t met the sun in months. Maybe I look a little like a broken ghost, but that’s only because you made me one.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 5/6/2018 12:02:00 AM
I am so sorry. This outcry speaks for so many women. Never forget that your poetry is floating out there in the minds of many and in another sphere. Had you been a boxer your first line would be a K.O. then followed by a Mike Tyson 1-2-3 May your healing become complete and quick
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Date: 4/26/2018 9:02:00 AM
Such a raw and powerful poem, Merel. The word RUN comes to mind.
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