The Ghost Word

If someone were to tell you-

“It’s never truly as it seems…”

Are you a rational positivist?

Or a believer in the occult arts?

Either way-

belief is nonessential

in the ghostly realm-

for it is real,

though unreal in substance-

not spirit, not ectoplasm-

for it is empty of matter.

If it was made up of some essence

it would not be the ghost world.

Do not confuse it with magic

and the deceased lingering shadows.

The ghost world is everything

in between sensory relays-

it’s the blind spots hiding

sometimes vital information-

or that note that isn’t played

that every musician hears

while the layman misses completely./

We are not all musicians

and we fail to see the ghosts

hiding just behind our ears-

whispering-

when we finally

become aware

we want to unhear-

For with awareness of the ghosts

comes awareness of the curses.

We see bullet holes yet to be filled-

cancers delivering decay on delay-

we see the calamities of everyday

conversations and

the horrible loneliness

behind those smiles-

in between two bodies

just gravitational forces-

and tiny black holes in each cell-

All Lives are just future deads./

And time is lost never gained-

a mystery to be sure with one surety-

in time all things pass

The Ghost world is a vortex of things

Ignored-/

Put aside, the fears and truths-

willfully overlooked-

woefully discovered

its never the Zombies-

who are deceased-

or other monsters from the grave-

It is the “real” world

the ego rejects

by creating one big lie instead

all for its own self preservation.