A Child's Paranormal Experience

All was dark and quiet in the house as I got up to pee Not a sound from a mouse, but I could hear my hammering heart inside me I was so scared of the dark and hated getting up in the middle of the night I knew bogeymen lurked in the trailer park, but thank God for my night light! I listened to the stories told, never knowing I would witness it first hand Seven years old and what I saw I couldn’t understand Walking past the living room door way, I saw her sitting in a chair She wore a white transparent negligee and had very white hair The room was eerily cold and truth be told, I was utterly mesmerized My hand on the door post, I knew she was a ghost, but not anyone I recognized She never once looked at me, but seemed to star in another direction Like contemplating her reality and if she had a spiritual resurrection I blinked an eye, that’s how fast she was gone. Never to be seen again I’ll never forget that July the beating beneath my breastbone, and her very pale skin She’ll always be in the forefront of my mind, a lost soul, lost in time! Her spirit is still confined and so I give Amy Green my story through a Rhyme! *Written for Amy Green’s “I Saw With My Own Eyes” Contest