Ghost

Why haunt my thoughts?
I tried to push you out.
Was I clever?
I was dumb.
Never spoke what
Really torments
My heart.
So now I mutely cry.
No tears on
Desert-drawn face.
Just acid rain poison
Eats the life-spring within.
Crying mutely I try
To word paint the pain
Colors splattered inside.
But I fear discovery.
Find me out instead.
Come inside my head.
Invitation beckons.
But why haunt my thoughts?
I’ll only push you out.
Perhaps I’m already dead
Animated only by confusion.