Moonlit Wraith

Moonlit Wraith

Standing at my window

Your eyes are cold and dead

Your breath on my cheeks

Is stale and frozen

As an artic wind

Your grey cheeks are hollow

And skull like

The skin stretched

Tight across bone

And your jaw hangs open

As though weighing

Too much for you to hold up

 

Moonlit Wraith

You hold my chin in your hand

As you stare at me

Judging me

But what is it you want to see

What is it that you judge

As you gaze

Straight into my soul

In all your deadness

There is a life

A light glowing faintly

Through the pale grey

Of your lifeless eyes

 

Moonlit Wraith

Watching me as I shudder

The motion impossible

To contain

As you run a dead finger

Over my warm lips

Freezing them

It seems to please you

The way your touch

Revolts me explicitly

And an odd expression

Almost like a smile

Flits across your features

 

Moonlit Wraith

The light on your skin

Makes you sparkle softly

Makes me inexplicably

Remorseful

As your beauty

Renders me suddenly breathless

You watch me

Something close to fear

Now tainting the emptiness

Of your eyes

You turn to leave

Knowing I’m not safe with you

 

And what can I do but let you go

O moonlit wraith

 

O wraithlike moon.