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By Parvene Michaels Submitted by ladyinwaiting Date: 2003 Jun 09 Comment on this Work [[2003.06.09.20.44.29327]] |
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Our lives are filled with ghosts Skeleton ties To people we have loved Their shadow reappear When memory breathes life into them Shades of our parents Impressions of old lovers We paint anew On the faces of strangers and friends That enter our lives Our ghosts They visit us again and again Until we learn What they have come to teach us And we master the puzzle that We are partners in We wrestle with our ghosts Until we put them to sleep Silence them By listening to them at last |