Haunted

Haunted By a portrait on the wall By eyes that will not let me be The man who went instead of me and took the fall. Haunted By the ship I set in motion Watching with disbelief when it hit the reef And sank into the violent ocean. Haunted By the child's life ended too soon a life of brilliant colors, summers lost no way to put a value on the cost. A bird in flight, eclipsed at noon. Haunted By the vultures on the heath Under the obscuring mist I had no plan for this Couldn't face what lay beneath. Haunted By the mess I made They tell me that duties remain They say don't wallow in the pain Let the memories fade Pointless But I don't think it right to kill the ghosts that haunt the night.