Outer Layers

I mourn
not just for the 
impatient dead
but for the 

spectors who 
tug me with
tasks incomplete
and error

beyond correction.
Death is 
irrelevant to haunting.
I have created many
 
memory ghosts of beings 
lost to my life
who return to 
dance inside.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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