There is ghost walking those halls/
A young man, fifteen to seventeen years old depending who you talk to/
As his only existence is in whisper/
In memories/
And a blank photo/
Whispers of a pale and cold phantom that drifts from one room to another/
A cold chill and wave despair grips you as he gets close/
Sadness is the only unchanging character ever given to him/
As he only exists in memories/
And a blank photo/
Memories of a boy that was distant/
As if you could only meet him across rooms and in hallways/
In the muffled distracted and detached talk and quick gaze into his eyes/
As he only exists in a blank photo/
A real photo of truly the boy who walked those halls/
An unknowable entity that existed between lips and inside minds/
Never physically present in the brick and metal walls/
So even if there is no photo, that is the only photo taht could ever truly capture who he was then and now.
You see the myth is true/
The urban legend of a boy haunting that cold building/
Except he isn’t there anymore/
He wanders other halls and rooms/
And if you ever want to see him/
Return to that school and look for his blank photo/
You will see the man he grew into and the boy he grew from/
Because he haunts me.
About the Creator
Keep reading
More stories from Thomias Bruch and writers in Poets and other communities.
Look, Mummy, There’s an Aeroplane up in the Sky
“Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” ― Walter Isaacson
By Chantal Christie Weiss3 days ago in Poets
Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.