ghost in your mind

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sweeter days of bad soda and hard candy,
someone's mother screams and calls us "bad teens",
and apparitions of who we used to be-
i'm sick of saying that things have changed,
because it's obvious that everything is not the same.

i miss you more now than ever,
since you had the courage to leave.
i hope that you're doing better,
but i wish that you would come back to me.
your laugh and your face, 
and everything else about you that i can't erase
haunts every corner of the alleys
that i walk through just to avoid the sight of you.
i want to love you more,
so that you could love me back,
but we both know
that love doesn't work like that.

maybe i should text you,
or call, and if you don't reply,
i could leave a voicemail for every time. 
i swear that i would,
but i'm already a ghost in your mind. 

i know that seeing me is like
looking through a figment of the past,
and everything about us that didn't last. 
when you look at me, 
i don't think you even feel mad, 
because i'm already dead, 
i'm just looking for a chance to come back.
i'm a ghost in your mind. 

 

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