Your Absent Ghost

You have gained flesh
you're real now
one of them

No more do you haunt
these places of incandescent night
with me

Your absence is the hurt
of a promise never given but broken
nonetheless



***- Out late one night. Missed you.

I do not sleep but I dream
stretch your hand
outside, the rain
sizzles on the coal tar
and begins the journey
back to the cloud
and if you touch
this rain as I do
miles distant
our fingers will meet



***- Rainy night. Alone.