Poem Stay© By Connie Hughes

     Poem Stay©

I feel whispers breathing gently on me at night
Are they merely ghost removed from sight
Remembering yester years that have trickled away
Somehow they find me, haunting me night and day
Voices from a past that seems so long ago

Silhouettes dancing moving so soft and slow

Footsteps echo down the hall

They rattle the pictures on the wall

Sweet music drifts up and serenades

Leaves me shaken but so unafraid

The strings vibrate to the bones

To be felt by a woman even made of stone

For even she would thirst and hunger for more

Like the sand awaits the shore

A lingering presence so unexplained

You know it’s real because of the pain

Tears so softly fall when the wind gently calls

Whispers of your name travel through the night

Like the Swift who must remain in flight

But it too will die like all the rest

Oh but stay, cling to me like a child clings to his mother’s breast

Your heart was my harbor, one I could always trust

Stay and linger like a ghost if you must

Stay one more season, one more sunset

Stay without reason

Let me feel life like it used to be

When you were here and your love surrounded me, stay!

By

Connie Hughes