To Kill a Ghost (144 of 365)

144 of the 365 day poem challenge.

Word of the day visitant meaning: "a supernatural being or agency; an apparition."

To Kill a Ghost 

I never dreamed it

I never imagined it

But it was there niggling

Like a deep dagger stuck so deep 

Blinded 

Blinded by ignorant foolish love

There is so much passion in this small slight frame

There is so much darkness that lies below

There is so much untapped here

To kill a ghost is to go beyond anything conceived 

To bring forth the scars to burst open the scabs and let my dreams and desires run crimson

The visitant is before me

And floods my thoughts

Consumes my nerves 

Sets them to firing 

This irrepressible desire will save and damn me 

The overwhelming glut and wave of emotions will propel me

But I will be destroyed 

All that I am 

Subsumed into darkness 

But that is what is required to kill a ghost...

Everything and more is required 

To bury the memory to squash 

To murder 

To maim

To end it once and for all 

All that and more of me

So that none of me is left

No remainder

Only then 

And so I shall kill the ghost.