Ghost Town
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
The town stands still,
Its buildings
Empty and decaying,
As if frozen
In a time
Long since passed.
The wind whips
Through the dusty streets
And the boards creak
With the weight
Of their own history.
Almost as if breathing.
But the man
Who comes here
To wander these
Forgotten streets
Believes
In none of that.
He is haunted too,
But not by phantoms or spirits,
Only by the memories
That linger
In every dusty corner
And broken window.
Ghosts
Of what once was,
Of what could
Have been,
Of what
He has lost.
He wanders alone,
Buoyed up
By the echoes
Of a time gone by.
It's a place where reality
Dissolves into memory.
As the sun sets behind
The western mountains,
He leaves the town behind,
Knowing full well
That the real ghosts he carries with him
Will haunt him long after he has gone.
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Written on June 05, 2023
Submitted by JoeStrickland on June 05, 2023
Modified by JoeStrickland on July 12, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 865 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
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