Friday 30 August 2013

The Ghosts Of My Family


There was a moon that night,
That shook my comfortable existence
On this little Earth
And as I looked at the stars
I almost lost my breath
I remembered what the great men had said
That I was made from the heart of dying stars
All of me was not from here, but belonged out there
And as I closed my eyes
I realised that those twinkling lights
Were not just heavenly bodies
But like an ageing photograph
Were the ghosts of my family
Long since gone.




bobby stevenson 2013  
photo: 8track.com



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