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Poetry
Philosophy of Ghosts
By lauthiamkok
03 April 2008
Another strange style of writing of mine, which again doesn't follow convention poetry form and structure. Sorry for my 'stubbornness' - can't help!

If we could see the origins
We may understand;
If we could return
We may remember.

The teaching and effort of all, of all,
Philosophies,
Science,
Technologies,
Arts,
And
Poetry,
Is to return us to our origins.
But, we can't go back as we were,
We only can become,
Merely become...
Ghosts.

By ghost,
Everything that has just died out
Will rise again;
Every moment that has just drifted away
Will come back again.
And we shall return
And we will remember too.

That is a love of memories.

You are my ghost
When I only can think of you
While you are away;
I am your phantom,
When I am gone out of your life totally,
And I only left just a little, a little,
Tinge of disturbances in you,
Which will haunt you unexpectedly from afar,
When my inhabitancy in your body
Has been deranged.

And I will become a ghost of your traces.
When the night falls,
The wind is strong,
I come back to you,
Lingering around the place
You have been through in the day,
To pick up the sense of you,
To breathe a tinge of your face,
To touch a flake of your skin,
Yet, I have to disappear before the daybreak,
I cannot let you see me
When the sun rises.

So, love, if you dream of me
Who comes back to you
When the moon is high,
I want to tell you,
It's not a dream,
It's true,
I did come back to you, while
You were sleeping, and the moon was high,
Walking me through the way
Towards where we were parted
And I will see you there once more
In the origin
Of our memories.

Reviews

Written by mia_ms_kim (997 comments posted) 3rd April 2008
hmmmm.... Don't know what to make of it. Sounds like a followup on your mermaid poem? A kind of haunting everlasting love, that will last beyond life... If so, I like it. I can feel the "love" of the ghost wanting to "pick up the sense of you / To breathe a tinge of your face / To touch a flake of your skin...". Powerful image of love's longing that cannot let go... Reminds me of some time-travel romance novels I read. Disappearing with the sunrise reminded me of vampires... I didn't think ghosts were sensitive to the daylight. Vampires falling for human women is a very popular theme these days...  
 
I like... 
 
Mia 8)

Written by lauthiamkok (60 comments posted) 4th April 2008
Hello Mia, thanks for the review and the interpretation. Ghost is just a metaphor in this piece and what it is about is open to the subjective interpretation. thanks! 
 
Lau

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