How do you Fight a Ghost?

by Erin   May 22, 2007


It's hard that we can't be together,
and it's my guess is that we never will.
You're a captive who is stuck back in high school, a captive who is stuck with her still.

Do you know how it feels to be told in the ear, that as we were kissing you wished she was here?
That in the back of your mind you thought me to be her, bringing you back to the way things once were.

But you can't have her sweetie, she's no longer alive, you told me in tears she was taking a drive.
A drive that would end in her leaving this place, and you never being able to look at her face.

She had been your first love for three years or more, the first girl that you would care for and adore.
But what we have together is special to me, our friendship is more now you'd be blind not to see.

As I lay next to you, I long for and miss, the touch of your hand and the taste of your kiss.
But the last time that happened it ended in you, telling me sadly but telling me true,

that as your lips touched gently to mine, it brought that familiar tinge back down your spine.
A feeling that she was the first to uncover, the feeling you got from your first real true lover.

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  • 17 years ago

    by Andrew Morton

    I think the first comment there says it all "holy shit"....that was incredible..its great that you portray such emotion without drowning it in metaphors..

    "But what we have together is special to me, our friendship is more now it's easy to see."...just goes to show that someone good can come out of something bad

    great work...wow

  • 17 years ago

    by isabel

    This is a beautiful poem...the imagery was great, i could feel what you were saying...
    this was really touching
    (i have a sugestion though, maybe you could divide it into stanzas, it can look like a normal text for someone more distracted...)
    5/5
    keep up the great work
    *isabel*

  • 17 years ago

    by Rachel

    Holy shit - that was an amazing poem Erin. My best friend dyed 11-05-05 and it tortures me everyday just remembering how much love she showed me. And when we kiss...those moments are just infinite.