The Necessity of Haunted Houses

Thoughts on why people are fascinated with seeing ghosts.

We want the privilege, and why

Shouldn’t we take our turn? Deny

The ghosts of shuttered suburbs all

You like, their company will call.

 

Because we want them here. It breeds

The fetish for the dead. What needs

One think, but “Let me know,

If body stops, can soul still go?”

 

If walls can weep and windows glower,

And Hell is stoked, Heaven’s aflower,

And eyes stare bright through every crack,

We might then trace our spirit’s track.

 

Or so we’d like. It fills us full

Of prickly afterlives, the pull

Into Elysian earths, the dense

Ethereal as our audience. 

Reviews

[Muse]

the dense

Ethereal as our audience.

The closing is the best! I lived and experience the life of living in a haunted house when I was a teenager. It forever changes your perspective on God, the Devil, religion, death, fear, it forever messes with your dreams too. It has made me who I am today. I can't say I'm a better person because of it....maybe more cautious, open-minded, curious.....it's an experience I don't wish on any body.

[VennelaMargame]

I'm agnostic, personally, but the world of the ethereal interests me, because I wonder how its logic would work.

This here was inspired by a dream I had about meeting a ghost in my basement. He was an old, haggard man with a long beard. He had no eyes, but there were rays of sunlight coming from his eye sockets. Not just light, but sunlight. It was warm and golden. It's an interesting image that I've never quite forgotten.

[emipoemi]

wow.....that's all I can really say about this.....wow....(I particularly like the way the syntax was broken.....really made for a great musicality!) Well done!