Ghost

I sit here and contemplate you

You overcome every thought

Consume me

Dread, anxiety, fear boils up

I spill

You echo through the empty rooms of my mind

I’m hollow

The poltergeist of memories

The reels play over and over in my head

There’s no end

You haunt me with what could have been

A ghost of what I dreamed

I’m tired

Reality will never meet the hopes that fill my heart

I sit here endlessly living out my misery

It won’t stop

I wear the skin of someone jubilant

Inside, the melancholy knot of existence lives

It’s dark

My attempt to move forward

Cleanse the past and rid myself of uncertainty

Don’t look back

- Shantece G.

Hurricane

You came in

Whipping winds of wisdom

Your charm flooding

I drown in your unpredictability

A storm on the horizon I never saw coming

My peace destroyed

My breath shallow

The sea swells, the windows rattle with anticipation

The storm approaches

Ferocious

Untamed

Raw

Emotions fall like the drops pounding against the roof

My mind enveloped

My heart reaching out for an anchor as the waters take over

I’m sinking

The cold deep reality drags me further

The light dims

I’m lost

The eye of the storm

A break in my consciousness

I can breath

I can think

I am safe

The storm resurges, but now I’m prepared

I seek shelter in the comfort of my power

For I too am a hurricane

- Shantece G.