Ghost In Me
At the end of the street, the quiet house stands.
The walls are hollow, the paint over it
chipped. Lightning stretches across
a sky botched with ink. Unopened windows,
age-old dust on glass, unmoving.
A flutter up in the attic, a crow sits in solitude.Soft remnants echo through the holes
in the walls: screeching despair.
Light once spirited
the cold corridors, the smell
of varnished wood leaped
where lonesome footprints now stand
embedded in grey dust. A manifestation
of fear, an embodiment of sleepless agony.
The floor creaks, a crawling presence
etched into the skeleton of this address,
the black rain an endless tragedy.The door is rusty and jammed, no one
comes or goes. The earth beneath
the wrecked abode crumbles, slowly.
Tarnished soul, caging body. Wailing sirens in shadows.
Flutter up in the attic, the crow sits in solitude.image: Wasim Majeed (wasim_majeed on instagram), untitled, 2018.
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