The One Ghost

A search

The One Ghost

My mind aches

There is fear in the making

As I lie awake

There are dreams that are breaking
Ghosts.

They come in the night, that dead night

Coming to send a darkened light

But it is for one ghost I seek

Not these ghosts that speak

The ghost I search for is silent, dead silent

The ghosts that haunt me are loud- violent

This ghost, it hides

Hides in my mind's dark corners

And bides

Bides its time until I am ready

And so until that time I dream

Dream and search my mind's desert

Where nothing is ever what it seems

It hides in my dreams

But in night's dark shadows of light

The ghosts that creep clutch my conscious tight

They do not give sleep this night

The battle is this- just one nights sleep

The bravery I show, the cool I keep

Until my mind can fall asleep
And I can search these dreams, forever free

Until I find the one ghost that holds the key

To me.