Once We Were Ghosts
All our stories are true,
for we are the fabulous fables,
of the long dead.
All truth and fiction has been ghost-written
by those formerly gone.
Every new perspective
of an ever-expanding reality,
philosophies of all kinds,
both modern and classical,
art of every form, including all contemporary
and futurist technologies;
the terrible weapons of war,
and of course every religion and scripture
ever preached,
all of it dreamed-up by us ghosts.
Once you were perfectly alive
and not merely the dead acting-out
a dream of life.
We eternals
have always given you a view,
sights imagined by us just for you.
Yes we know
you feel that this must take away
your purpose and creativity,
deny you
what you supposed to be a real life,
but you see,
you are one of us also,
we are all ghosts,
ghosts coming and going.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2023
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