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Spirits

© Patrick Dewit - spirits 
© Dirk Engelage

 


Walking my dog, 
what do I see?

Light flashes? 
Spirits on my path?

They seem to be 
just that, 
and nothing else 
that could explain 
what I experience 
right here and now.

My dog just walks along 
and looks at them 
but seems 
not too disturbed, 
although I am!

What do they 
want from me, 
what message 
are they trying 
to convey?

I do not speak, 
nor understand 
their silent language 
or the dances 
they perform 
before my eyes.

I walk along 
past this, 
what do I call it, 
haunted place, 
try to forget 
what happened here.

My dog just does 
what dogs appear to do 
when walked; 
he pees and poops 
and brings me back 
to more earthen 
reality.

But somewhere, 
in a corner of my mind 
a door is left ajar 
where spirits 
can come in 
and haunt me 
...