ghosts


Staring down the weathered driveway

I return to the thought of my grandad's death

and how I'd like to also die

embraced by a warm glow and hall of photographs

from along my journey


On my walk home I saw another ghost

wrapped in a pink jacket

she stared off at the hill her bus would appear

as the wind blew her white tufts sticking out her hood

and she leant on her stroller

I couldn't get a glimpse of her face - it was obscured

She send me back to a time where I'd catch a bus with quite a similar woman

she could have been her for all I know


It's in moments like those

where some old ghosts return

to embrace and comfort

those who deal with their loss

but also to remind us

of something we will soon learn



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