Love Poem: The Ghost You Left To Kill Me
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Written by: Aidan Gilbert

The Ghost You Left To Kill Me

The Ghost You Left to Kill me
By: Aidan Gilbert

I have grown accustomed to being alone with my thoughts, as I let my heart start a genocide to destroy the joy that came with you

Your invisible shadow in the snow haunts what’s left of the abused picture I left of you

The sound of my boots and tears running through the snow keeps away the ghost you left to kill me

Unintentionally your love still gets me after five years

The day your spirit softly whispers its leaving is the day death drags me away from you

When the deer kissed your ear I never had fear of how you would leave the now; the now of you and me

My sorrow is a twisted game you taught me to play by lying to me saying you would never leave

The trees that watch me turn to death than be suffocated by my sorrow because you left

Did you ever listen to my voice or ponder about the massacre that was to come

These cold winter nights add to my heart’s fight to kill me

Now left alone with these dead trees as my sad shadow follows me holding the hand of the ghost you left to kill me

Lying here alone prone to my endless groan of our gone beautiful love

Don’t imagine God staring at me, too broken stubborn for him to set me free

I’m the population of one in my land of sorrow

Death is closer than summer, depression is my forever session teaching me to never loose the memories of us, how to drown in lost lust

For now I don’t want it crystal clear, but to hold the jumbled mess near, to sleep with fear and be troubled by my upcoming death 

Blinded by love, staring at a passing dove, the only thing I can see is the ghost you left to kill me