Hello again

From the abyss

The endless void of falling, crashing, burning

Once more

I’ve made the wrong choice

Took the blue pill, took the less traveled path

It took me down a long, hard road

Oh, no, I’ve never been the poster child skeleton 

Oh, no, I’m not a vampire, I can see my reflection all too well

Out of the all the monsters I could have become, 

Hello from your local ghost.

 

I’m not here to bang pots and slam doors

I just want some comfort, but I won’t beg in your corner

I’m not haunting your house, I’m haunting your attentions

Throw on a white sheet

Slip through the walls

A whisper in the dark

It’s getting bad again, please take me home

Not back to the graveyard, though

The hearses frighten me too much.  

 

I stare stupidly into the mirror 

My skin is translucent, my eyes are dimming quickly

But still

I’m not fully dead

Sometimes I wish it would sweep me off my feet

A knight in shining armor coming to save me from myself 

Carry me off on a grand white horse

We’ll go to a towering castle where I’m safe and sound

Up the spiraling stairs, to a big clean bedroom 

Looking down from the windows, my perfect kingdom come

No stress, and I’ll never feel the hunger pains again.

 

But I’m not dead yet

I’m not a true ghost

I toe the line, I sit on the fence

Can’t pass through the walls just yet,

I’ve been told I look dead

But dead people always look best in the coffin 

So

I request a bouquet of daisies on my chest

There won’t be any taunting plates

Or menacing soda cans

I won’t have to wake up wondering 

Maybe I’ll collapse when I stand

Maybe I’ll reach my breaking point

Maybe I’ll just get worse and die

Or

Maybe someone will see me lurking and the corner and say

You are not a ghost yet, come join the living for a spell.