A Poem
Time Traveling with Ghosts
Remembering why we fight to survive
My eyelids are doorways
I close them and time folds like an origami finger game
One jagged inhale and time shifts frame
Three folds and I am transported to another plane
My breath catches as I feel your unwavering gaze
And even as I know now this will all betray, I still can’t tear my eyes away
The look of love pours from your beautiful blue and transfixes me
Never have I felt so loved, so seen
Embodied here with our ghosts in this place between
I visit to remember
Not you or the pain
That’s just the price I must pay
No, I visit now to remember love and all its splendor
I bleed here just to keep that hope alive
To remember why I must fight my demons and survive
For if this could have felt so right and yet have been so wrong
Surely there is hope for an even greater dawn
So I let you hold me here, just so I can feel it all again
Like an echo trapped in the halls of my mind
I…
