Another Poem!

Oct 17, 2007 22:44



I knew the whole story.

I saw it all.

Watched her unfold whilst you slept.

Your chest rising and falling, fingers gently twisting in the folds of my duvet.

I let her go;

creeping soundlessly through the house.

Knew she was off to meet his ghost.

And didn’t stop her.

I watched her walk along the garden path,

and latch the gate behind her.  She turned once

to look back at the house.

A small smile curving her lips,

As her hair turned molten in the light of the streetlamp.

I turned and slipped back into bed beside you,

my arm snaking around your shoulders.

But with my mind far away, disappearing down a street

with a girl and a ghost

and a sentence that hangs in the late night air.

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