Ghosts Lost & Winter Found

29 // i am unknowable

I AM UNKNOWABLE
//

i am midnight driving with no destination,
dark pressing down on all sides. i am the ghosts
that haunt the side of the road, around the bend,
under the local-myth tree. i am all the empty
streets, all the empty buildings, all the hyper-
quiet zones where time chokes where time chokes.
i am all the forgotten memories of those
desperate survivors, those longers of eternity.
i am the history everyone mistakes for myth,
the joke no one finds funny, only strange.
i am bitter cold days in the sultry summer,
and in the wickedness of winter i make things
hot, i make them burn and burn and burn.
i am all the failed prophesies and predictions,
all the poorly-drawn tarot cards, all the seances
that ended in catastrophe - or worse. i am all the
artists that never created, all the lovers that
couldn't love. i am every wish you ever made.
i am every dream you never understood.
i am the passing figure you see once and forget.
and sometimes you don't forget. but you should.