Free Verse

Ghosts
1.

The walls close around me as I lay my head on the silk

2.

Visions and memories race past my eyes

Personification

3.

My heart is pumping as its running a marathon

Personification

4.

They are within me, from the pit of my stomach to the electricity in my brain

5.

Who am I?

6.

Why do they follow me?

7.

I feel compromised as if my soul has been dragged across the dirt,

8.

My heart belongs to me, but my mind belongs to them,

9.

Those who choose when I see them,

10.

They choose to watch me,

11.

My eyes are heavy,

12.

my back chilled,

13.

I'm being watched, eyes darting into my soul,

14.

They control me,

15.

Paranoia has molded into reality,

16.

Took its shape and left no trace for those to see,

17.

But me...?

18.

I see it all,

19.

They terrorize me,

20.

I remember when it was all fake,

21.

My paranoia is a reality,

22.

The fake is now the real,

Assonance

Metaphor

Metaphor

23.

The real ghosts,

24.

They have become me.