Text Tuesdays – Prose – “Ghost” – by Blue Hurt

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This is a poem from the manuscript Blue Lines, by the antagonist.

you’ve done it before, why don’t you do it again,
you’ve done it before, why don’t you do it again,
I look into your face then I’m drifting,
Sifting,
asking questions of why,
why did I die in your arms,
yet I live as a ghost,