Tuesday, May 7, 2024

A Home for Ghosts [biogenerated poetry]

 A Home for Ghosts



When you believe in ghosts

Every house is haunted


Restless spirits pervade the spaces

In between hope and fear


The silent echoes of the past

Ignite our imagination

And drive us, screaming, toward that place

Where shades and specters toil in loops


The abyss is always staring into you

You only notice when you're looking into it

When solemn eyes devise the path

To your destruction

And the only way out is down

Because you're falling

Through

Into

a pit with no bottom

The center of which is a heart

That forgot how to beat


The first hell was born of troubled sleep

All other hells proceed from it

The shades that inhabit this space

Become circuits of despair

Predictable

Like the motions of a planet

Like Sysiphus’ boulder rolling again

Down the incline


To what extent we are like

An endlessly repeating script

We are in hell


To what extent we desire to be seen

We are a ghost


To what extent we are a ghost

We are a home for ghosts


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