Forever knocking on doors of dead houses
Converse with the ghosts of no more
Skeletal trees, dead and carved
limbs outreach to a dark ink sky
I know your face like the smell of home
Familiar lights, welcome gaze, a heartfelt regard
Invited like the whispers of the tomes of neglect
I watch your optimist mask shatter and crack
To your ears they whisper in shards
planting the seed, it gestates in your mind
adopted words born of ill intent
a broken man years spent
thoughts like a ghost chant
feeling the failure set in
the plague psalm is set free
I return each night to a ceremony of flawed life
To this house I hold no key
To a mind forever diseased
turn out the lights
turn away, take your time
Leave nothing
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