A Haunting Moon
One moonless night
she walked with ghosts.
The doctor said it was her meds.
She kept here silence.
Days later she began to speak
to the voices in her head.
Her meds were again adjusted.
Then one late and windless night
there began
a rattling of our garden gate,
it kept me awake
while my aunt slept deeply.
I had to go,
had to see for myself.
Opening the back door
I swear,
a full moon rushed in
as if searching for her cure.
Hours later
back in my own bedroom
I overheard her
confiding with that ghost moon
as if it were her Doctor.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2022
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