My Companion Ghost

Peter Douglas Blackledge and Cheryl Ann Welch

The story of

“My Companion Ghost”

Me to my ghost…it’s been awhile now, I thought you were gone

And my thoughts would turn to fear.

Fear that you would abandon me, and leave me alone again…here.

My mind searched for you, no words to the song.

Empty is the night, no dreams for comfort,

Just the dark filled silence.

No beacon, no light, no shelter or port.

…I long for your presence.

I feel the words, but no music comes with the wind.

Silence, cold silence is the cry

That fills my being, my heart just won’t mend.

I have but one question…Why?

I close my eyes, and my soul whispers your name…Ghost

So acute is the selfish pain.

We call to you yet you are gone…deaf I think your soul must be,

Leaving me.

Tears no longer come to feed me, cold I am in misery.

To punish me, is this your goal?

If this is so, wouldn’t I know?

Anguish please let me go.

Too long have our souls touched

Love is the bond, it has always been so.

It has never us go.

Refusing to let either of us be free. How could this be so?

I must be dreaming… My heart awakens and comes to life.

Ghost as he speaks to me...‘Oh there you are…what kept you love?

Why did you hide without me there to share your strife?

Did you think to spare me of your pain? Again I ask you was there gain?

Don’t you know I ache with endless agony…

Not knowing…alone in fear…without you near.

I long to feel your touch, to hear your voice,

To see that familiar sparkle in your dark brown eyes.

                                    Just to have you here.

Yes my love, my only love, I know, of course I know.

I had no thoughts to hurt you. I hear your cries and my heart dies.

                        We had to let go. 

Yet the heart is strong…with just that one song…our song.

A living presence is all I need.

True is this love in which I believe.

It was our fate…for our souls to mate.

So I’ll hear none of it…no words of loneliness

Our fates are sealed…

                                    You are not alone, nay never alone

At last in peace we dwell…our hearts beating in time as one

This is the promise I gave to you, and my soul belongs to you

Now and always…you and I.’

                                    Sweet love you came to me through the distance of time, and I will cherish this promise you have given me and I will take this dream as the long ago promise you made to me And believe with my heart it is meant to be.

So no more alone, you have come home And are what I crave the most..my beautifulBeautiful Companion Ghost.

 

This was written in February 1969.  Young hearts are seldom wise, but they are oh so very innocent when we fall in love.  This is a story of two young hearts that just truly loved…and were separated by the mistress of fickle fate.