the ghost in the attic room

a little ghost

 

THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC-ROOM(c) -

BY Dot Sutton(c) MOON Dec 1999

THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRL IN THE ATTIC ROOM
WHO DIED ALL ALONE UP THERE
IN A VERY OLD HOUSE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL
SURROUNDED BY TREE’S SO BARE,

SHE WAS ONLY FIVE WITH NO FOOD OR DRINK
NO ONE KNEW SHE THOUGHT NO ONE CARED
A CENTURY AGO SHE WAS STARVED TO DEATH
SHE CALLED OUT BUT NO ONE HAD HEARD,

YEARS AFTER SHE DIED PEOPLE FOUND OUT
HER UNCLE DID A TERRIBLE CRUEL THING
LOCKING HER UP AT THE TOP OF THE HOUSE
ALL THROUGH WINTER, SUMMER AND SPRING,

HER UNCLE GREW OLD CONFESSED TO THE CRIME
THREW THE PIECE’S ALL OVER THE PLACE
“COS” AFTER SHE DIED HE CHOPPED HER UP
OF HER BODY THERE WAS NO TRACE,

A CENTURY WENT BY THE HOUSE FALLING DOWN
THE GRASS GROWING TALLER AND VERY WILD
OF HER BODY NO ONE FOUND THE SMALL GIRL
THE EARTH COVERED ALL TRACE OF THE CHILD,

HER SPIRIT STILL HAUNTING THE OLD ATTIC ROOM
PEOPLE HEARD HER CRY OUT IN THE NIGHT
NO CHILDREN WILL PLAY OR GO NEAR THE HOUSE
SHE WANTS HELP AND CRIES OUT IN FRIGHT,

THE MEN HAD COME DIGGING AROUND THE OLD FIELD
FOUND OLD SKELETON BONES ALL ALONE 
THEY FOUND THE BODY SCATTERED HERE AND THERE
STILL LYING WHERE THEY WERE ONCE THROWN,

THEY HEARD THE STORY ABOUT THE YOUNG CHILD
SO THEY TOOK ALL THE BONES OF SHE
THEY BURIED HER BODY IN A GRAVE OF HER OWN
THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC ROOM IS FREE.

Reviews

[cimmy wuv xxxooo]

amazing write did you just make all that up? That was an amazing story like poem and i really loved reading it. Very sad story some people are very cruel and sick have no hearts. I love the ending how the men found her and gave her a proper funeral kinda thing and then she was at peace. I love the whole poem very creative your very talented keep writing :)

[Sami Khalil]

A nice write ma'm...Thank you for sharing...:)