Ghosted

By my muse

 

I nearly drown

then rise for air

in the ebb and flow

of your complexities

 

that you offer

like tea or coffee

on the deck of what

may be a ghost ship

 

it’s easy to forget

you are not real when

I have felt your touch and

I have heard you speak

 

but you always disappear

leaving me treading in

an ocean of spirits

with unfinished business

 

and I, with no words

for any of them

this is not how

I wanted to drown

 

I wanted to drown in you

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

Complex partners often inhabit ghost ships. Sounds as though this one caused you to walk the plank.

[Patricia]

Hello John, nice to see you and I hope you are well and enjoying summer. Thank you for reading and commenting and yes, the plank and I hate water :)

[Gee]

I have heard of folk being ghosted but had to, just now, Google it's meaning. Not happy with your muse if this her game with you Patricia, not happy at all.
Must be frustrating to want to write but lack ideas or inspiration.
Hope you are well m'dear

[Patricia]

Hello love! How are you doing these days? I hope you are enjoying your summer! I’m well and thank for asking. Thank you for the read and comment and I appreciate you googling the title :) most people wouldn’t take the time to google or thumb through a dictionary for a poem. Yes my Muse is on a n extended vacation, so when you can’t write you write about not being able to write, at least it’s something. ;)

[Patricia Wedel]

Patricia… you are quite a Romancer of being tossed in Waves of lustful overtures that engulf your dreams … as ever, Pat

[Patricia]

Thank you Pat for your kind words ;) Have a beautiful weekend! Hugs!

[Chris Shaw]

I feel a muse here misbehaving. Ghosting is quite a horrible experience.

The unfinished business, the words that won't come when the muse plays mean.

I am probably way off course dear P, but this is where I drifted in the pre dawn fog and I am so tired, but can't sleep :)

Chris

[Patricia]

You are right on target my dear friend, actually it was written with a duo meaning but I always say poetry is what the reader gets from it. Maybe someone will get something else from it… I love it when that happens ;) I do hope you get some sleep, I know we share that old friend “insomnia” as I am trying to read mine to sleep, it’s not going so well. At least rest your eyes sometimes the mind follows, goodnight love :)

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks hon. Starting to feel weary now. Nighty night.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

wonderful metaphor, and a slam dunk ending...

Plenty of unfinished business...Plenty....

[Patricia]

Thanks j! You know, one of these days I’m going to write an ending that just fizzles out and you will be disappointed and I will cry ;) LOL it’s not easy ya know? Oh! The pressure! ;)

[Betty Hermelee]

Heartfelt piece P., this is not a real relationship if you can't appreciate even a touch; it's a ghostly affair set up by your muse, that sways with the wind; though you need this to be real; if he comes and goes, you then suffer, because you know he's really a ghost, or a person who can't offer the love you beg for. You drown "in his complexities" ; tell your muse to find a another hip guy! I don't want you to be duped .
Great write
HUGS,

( not sure of my babble!)

[Patricia]

I love your babble B! Babble away! Thank you for your comment Hugs! And have a beautiful weekend. Love P.