The Ghost

I’ve always wanted to haunt you

but it seems you haunt me instead

I guess I prefer it that way

you’re always a ghost in my head

you linger in my mind

when I have no control of my thoughts

you infect my dreams

drawing me close

like a light to a moth

I awake in sweats

water drips down my skin

like your fingertips

I almost forget

you're not here

you're not real

just a distant memory

one I wish I’d regret

yet, every night I rush to bed

dressed in my very best

hoping to see you, 

just one more time

a hit of your love

like that last cigarette 

but it’s never just one

see you’re hard to quit

cause your ghost is more loving

than you have ever been

-kayls