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Ghosts of My Regret

Ghosts of My Regret Erie shadows roam the night and come calmly calling to my door. On winds they whisper their unearthly plight, humbly begging for entry or perhaps... something else... perhaps ...something more. I sit stone silent and hear the fingers scratch at glass and wood upon every visit of the breeze. There pretending the hours away as candlelight dances and jumps from page to page while I read. The candle frequent gutters low with my haste filled disdain. A bit of chill seeps in, Finding vacant track through crevice and crack. They come to torment a restless mind, these ghosts of my regret.

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Anna M Shepard

Date: 10/10/2020 4:24:00 PM

I can feel the chill run down my spine. Well written!

Jesse Zerlaut
Date: 2/4/2021 9:32:00 AM

Thank you Anna.

Becca Teagan

Date: 8/9/2017 4:47:00 AM

Thought I'd give this poem another visit. Sometime I feel that chill you're taking about, come to torment a restless mind.

Jesse Zerlaut
Date: 2/4/2021 9:32:00 AM

I left this sit here so long and never responded. I didn't see it till now. The poem is very much built around regretting a past we can't change. Being haunted by it from time to time.

Becca Teagan

Date: 6/20/2016 7:34:00 PM

Hi! You're new here? This is an awesomely creepy poem!

Jesse Zerlaut
Date: 6/20/2016 9:56:00 PM

The poem is suppose to imply haunting, but metaphoric. It's more about guilt and regrets of the past coming back to torment us.

Jesse Zerlaut
Date: 6/20/2016 9:54:00 PM

I am very new here. I looked up poems once and greatly admired Cole Banner's Dialogue of Souls. So I saved the website in favorites and now two years later... I went through all the poems/prose I have saved in evernote and decided I'd post some.