Poem -

Haunting

Haunting

Am I
            to be                                      
                        ghost

because I already died
or
because I hang on

            live on past,

past that one moment
            the old times froze,

past that one moment
            creating, in passing,

spaces.

Am I to haunt
            this new house,

or am I
            to move from room to room,
            playing where nothing existed before…                     

I breathe
              − onwards, beyond,
            everlasting −

stars,

I do not sleep,
for this naked house
is magnificent
 

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Marion

I love this...I like the flow and lost energy, pinned ?

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author
John Loopstra

Thank you. My dad never told my certain parts of his past, of which I learned only a yera and a half after his death and shed a completely different light on my youth and life... It was written autumn 2015 at 01.00 pm...

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author
Being Me

Am I
            to be                                      
                        ghost
because I already died
or
because I hang on

I just love these opening lines. To me they say everything x

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author
John Loopstra

Hang on I did, for dear life. I had my wife read this during the cremation ceremony for my mother, who had slowly disappeared into Alzheimer's... She is with her second husband, now, happily painting and writing poetry up there

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