impact - g h o s t

your eyes are an explosion of pastel, slathered
onto a dark portrait, and limp strands collapse against a ghostly
complexion.

blue lips part, but no whispers escape. 

i'm so taunted-- haunted by the ghost that i can
see rising in your gaze and i can't escape from this love as it
tears away at my will, and i can do nothing but watch as it begins to
kill me.

blue lips part, but no whispers escape. 

dead skin takes twisted wrists within its cold, clammy hands,
and i'm so frozen, so terrified- and i don't understand.
why you devote yourself to a misshapen world, but you say
nothing.

blue lips part, but no whispers escape. 

and i'm sorry that my obsession has brought you back to here,
but i missed you so much, people like you don't just go and
disappear like that.

blue lips part, but no whispers escape. 

now you're shaking, trembling as i try to draw up enough lack of fear,
to let you know that it wasn't your fault. but you look away, and
i don't know what i should even begin to say, and it's so
quiet.

blue lips part, but no whispers escape. 

i remember the nights we spent plotting an end to this terrible world itself,
but all of those words were so lighthearted that half the time i thought we
would fly away and leave it behind us.

blue lips part, and a small whisper escapes.

'i'm so sorry.'

her eyes whisper.