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Images of After:

Ghost women, spirit child,

The hollow reflection remains,

She moves through life in shadows

Suffocating memory,

The weight that sustains her vigilance

Terror spurts like an artery,

Oppresive assailant shrouded in night

Dread and apprehension, familiar companions

That eased out jocund days

Framed against a ticking clock,

Jagged memories tear holes in flesh anew

Like the caw of a raven, a death knell,

That pains and pulls at her reverie

Ghost women, spirit child,

The hollow reflection remains,

She moves through her life in shadows

The abyss of a union, absence of trust in intimacy

Proximity is but a reflex for fear

Heart pumping, pounding maniacally,

Lips choked silent by forbidden introspection

Like liquid tremors invading the body damaged

The incessant drip of memory,

Enveloping,

Relentless,

As ceaseless as the pressure of his judgment

On her slender throat

Running To and running From,

Illusions of hope set the pace of that silent dance

A gossamer thread of desire,

Too fragile and thin to clasp

Self-promises that will not purge,

From scars on the lies that scald her brain

Deny, deny the ruin filled hours

Deny, deny the intruding reflections

Need to be safe, her ubiquitous goal

Ghost women, spirit child,

The hollow reflection remains

An altered state now forms her life...

Moving in the shadows.

- Caitlin

 

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