Haunted

Pallid color is peeling off the walls in fancy shapes
Plants rotten and scattered all over the floor
The wooden floor is crackling beneath my feet
Ready to break and take me down into unknown depths

All my steps are chosen carefully and ages ago
It seems like I've been wandering these halls for aeons
My fingernails are scratching along the panels
Collecting dust and dirt as if it would be the last time

A chilly wind is circling my shoulders and bare arms
Like a hundred tiny fingers whirling over my skin
My robe is slightly floating with the gentle breeze
And dust is dancing slowly within the glow of the moon

Hushed voices are whispering inside this emptiness
Telling stories about a thousand souls caved in misery
Their pain is almost palpable in all its awful glory
Filling the atmosphere with the heavy scent of demise

This house is haunted by a million screaming faces
Their hollow eyes are glowing in the impermeable dark
Pervading my senses until they're in their control
And all I am left to feel is a tremendous cold inside

My footfalls are only a faint echo within the emptiness
Echoing from far away and swallowed by tranquility
Nothing seems to remind of my wandering here
I'm long lost and forgotten before the sun begins to rise

Author's Note

thank you so much for taking time to read this. And a very special thank you to all of you who also took the time to leave a comment. <3

Reviews

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masterful setting built with your imagery. the one thing i think everyone thusfar has missed; is that the narrator is a ghost that does not know? the conflict is that the voice shows physical manifestation through the poem but the ending is what makes me think this... perhaps i am far off base, it would not be the first or last. great poem with everything aside. i can feel the pings of shadow around me as whenever i come to close to a spectre.

[kbwright]

very descriptive use of dark expressions. Captivating and chilling...!

[MAC]

adore your darkness. it is fresh to a point. this poem is good. :)

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