haunted

I haunt every space I inhabit 

yet I am not alone 

I carry with me memories belonging to others 

flowing from my ears and heart 

the places I let them in 

I hold emotions of others 

though they burn through my skin 

and threaten those still living 

I see images from lives I have not lived 

but somehow still feel 

and so I shudder 

leaning into the emptiness 

unspeakable experiences silenced are deafening 

and the truth can be revealed or kept behind the veil 

some things can never truly be known 

so we focus our attention instead 

break the glass

take the rose 

replant it and 

watch it bloom somewhere new 

We haunt every space We inhabit 

and so We are not alone