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Ghosts

A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished about a year ago 1 min read
Ghosts
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How do you talk to the ghost of the unknown?

What to do when you’re alone in room full of people

It’s your personal rain cloud on a sunny day

Licking wounds and chewing scars to feel alive

Traveling everywhere

But you never arrive

A zombie parroting the living dead

Always expecting to expect nothing

Operantly conditioned to listen without listening

When the hissing drowns out all happiness

We scour for relevance

Selling emotional comfort by the hour

Fantastic phantasms drowning out the now

And yet

I persist somehow, someway

I rise to face a new day

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    Written by Atomic Historian