Dancing With Ghosts
Melissa Kolmar
The summer nights have turned cold
And cemeteries only whisper faded dreams-
Old kisses press themselves between pages
Of romantic tales,
Remembering better times than this.
The lightning bugs have long since winked out
And the blossoming flowers
Are withering on the vines,
Summer is disappearing
Beneath a wave of ice and memories.
I dance with my ghostly lover
Between marble tombstones and soaring mausoleums,
The moon making me as an earthly
As the transparent arms I move in.
I can only find warmth here-
A calm in the center of a fierce storm.
I can only feel peace
In the subconscious realm of walking death
And never ending life;
As the summer turns cold,
The cemeteries whisper my dreams.


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