ghosts

true I work in admin in a hospital the office or dept I work in is a very old respiratory ward re outfitted they say there are a few ghosts some have heard or seen this is a true acccount

do ghosts exist

I say yes

I'm not afraid of them

I went into work 

last Thursday

my papers to be scanned

into my hospital files

scewiff all over the floor

no cleaner had come

no person went in my office at night

told my supervisor

she said oh must be the hospital ghost

we laughed

she didn't

she said no its true

there is a hospital ghost

oh really

yes she said at midnight the alarms go off

some nights

sometimes the lights flash

sometimes 

just sometimes

I said oh ok

I'm not afraid

that night I had to return to get some files

the office we use in my dept is an old

respiratory ward

I left looked over my shoulder as I quickly

pressed the exit office door

I heard a cough

a barky cough

I bade them goodnight

sleepy souls 

caught in their invisible respirators

invisible to me

in limbo

we work during the day

in our office so bright

but at night they 

scramble around

drips pulling this way and that

slippers scuffling up the hall

turnin lights on and off

 playing with the new computers

learning online 

doing our admin courses

learning first aid

they hear us coming 

at 7.00 am

they scuffle back to bed

hoping they didn't leave a paper

untidied

or left on the floor

like I had seen last Thursday

from now on I lock my scanning in the

drawer

after all hospital files are confidential

not to be seen by ghosts or the living

I lock my drawer

hide the key

and the very next day

one page is missing

I counted them last night

38 to be scanned

I locked them away

now 36

so yes ghosts do exist

they are sent to taunt us

to ruyffle our feathers

to keep us on toes

ghosts don't hurt us

we just hurt them

by not believing they exist

I heard that cough

was it mine

or the ghost of that patient

attached to his drip

in limbo he sits

his cigarette handy

waiting for all to go home

he shall light up

in limbo he sits

waiting for the time

he can stop being invisible

he patiently sits

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[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Thanks word man for your kind review and stopping byv

[wordman]

my pleasure

[wordman]

my wife says the same thing ,she worked in a hospital for a while,,they made jokes of it as well