Next to the bridge downtown, the one that disappears into the clouds, your shadow moves across fresh snow until it rests its head on my shoulder. You were once my girl, but now you’re my ghost. I’m sure you would take great delight in knowing this. Can just imagine the grin on your lips and how it would spread across that feline face in giddy, radiant pleasure. You’d see it as apt punishment for all those times I’d put you down for being so innocent and naive when all you ever wanted was for me to care. I could be a cruel lover with you, it’s true, and back then my actions left a lot to be desired. You once asked why I took such delight in tormenting you. My response, casual and forthcoming, was that you looked so pretty when you cried and that your sadness spoke to me on a level that went deeper than mere looks. It was the truth, and yet… Such a strange and delicate creature you were, one that I both cherished and harmed in equal measure. And you were cherished, despite what you thought. Breathing you in, I remember that perfume you used to wear, and how when I’d suck your neck the taste of it would make me want you more and more until I’d sink my fingers in and eat you all up. Your skin, your soft skin, its memory glows in my mind as does the feel of you beneath me covered in sweat while kicking your heels against my lower back. Such intimacy. Such a sense of oneness that has never left. Standing there looking at the traffic, I see not life but memory, and as your shadow wraps itself around me, I’m not quite sure where I am. You’re teasing me, whispering into my ear saying how I’ll never be able to have you again. How you know the words I write are about you and you alone, and that it must hurt knowing that what I so desperately seek is now out of reach. You were once mine. I was once yours. But not anymore. Slipping from my grasp and moving back through the snow without leaving a trace, you turn and look at me, and such a knowing look it is. With the lights of passing vehicles flashing in my face, all I can think of doing is stepping into the snow and following after you even though I know you won’t be there.
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Categories: Lucid
You’ve such a gift of forlornness….
I appreciate that Lee, thank you.
I’ve been sitting here for ages now trying to comment on this, but I just feel sad about it, about you and your ghost. I don’t have the words, but it moved me, Stephen, so I had to say. x
Thank you, Allane. Your words are a gift to me in themselves, and they mean a great deal. Life is sullen for sure, and yet it will always be beautiful. That’s what I try to take from it at all times x
I love how deeply you capture the essence of flesh and soul…all in the same little piece of text! What a beautiful writer you are…and I am so glad to be able to read your work!
Thank you ever so much, Aishwarya! How wonderfully kind of you to say. I am so pleased to know that you enjoyed this piece of melancholy and beauty 🙂
Such feeling goes into the writing you do. It must exhaust you at times even though I am sure you enjoy writing.
It is very exhausting, yes, but like you say, I enjoy what I do. It gives me meaning and helps to right a few wrongs along the way, too.
All Good then. ☺👍
Ahhh yes, those days when every piece of scenery or a discarded pair socks or a smashed cigarette butt reminds you of THEM. And in flood the memories and out flies the minutes without the ability to reckon them.
Exactly. We move through time as if time didn’t exist at all. We become one with everything, and yet not with ‘them’.
Yes! Beautifully said. Thank you, again for sharing your mind with the world. It’s a wonderful thing.
Thank you x
You write with honesty and raw emotion truly wonderful. Blessings to you xo
I’m blessed that you think so. Thank you xo
You are welcome
Sounds like your character’s realizing the pattern of her/his own behaviors, but was still unwilling to change her/his way in interacting with that certain someone yet…
Random thoughts of a love now lost, truly emotional!
I’m so pleased you think so. Thank you!
We all got them, those bitter, sweet loves and the ghosts thereafter. But you certainly write yours back to life, even if just for a time, amidst the traffic. Hard … but good to read. Hope in the writing you gain, some, solace.
That’s very kind of you to say. Thank you.
It can be hard at times, going back, opening up the scars, but I think the past deserves to be heard, and not merely forgotten.
And those ghosts, they get so lonely at times.