The Ghost of Hearts
This is a tale of a tortured soul
Who tragically has not quite passed on
But walks the earth alone and forsaken
Neither having gone to hell or heaven
His demise came on a fateful frosty night
When he slipped on rocks to his death
All the way down into an abyss he fell
And woke as a ghost with a story to tell
He soon realised that he had no body
And wondered how he could walk without legs
It was a case of mind over matter he guessed
To inform his beloveds about his death
As a man, this Ghost was courting three women
So he set out to visit them one by one
He needed to explain to each of them discreetly
How it came to be that he had lost his life.
He first approached Celeste who had curvy hips
And laid his ghostly hand on her shoulder which made her shiver
He spoke to her in loving words as she looked in the mirror
Whilst she combed her raven hair and painted her lips
And could neither hear nor see his ghostly apparition
Broken hearted he proceeded to visit Margherita
Whom he adored because with her, he shared la dolce vita
She lay seductively on her bed in a black negligee
And he approached her with lust like back in the day
But he noticed that he could no longer feel the fire
That once flamed the sinews of his earthly desire
So he watched her yawn sleepily and turn on her side
Eyes closed and falling in a sweet slumber ‘till morn
Leaving him feeling all cold and empty and forlorn
The last lover he sought was named Camille
She was a poet and he held her in high esteem
He sat near as she scribed her rhymes with a quill
Not touching for he knew she would not feel
Not uttering a sound for he knew she heard nil
And as he looked over her shoulder with melancholy
This Ghost of Hearts realised his vanity and folly
His soul felt all the pain now that he had no body
And he wished he was in the hot fires of hades
He thought he had found his soul-mate lady
He thought Camille and he would one day marry
Alas, the Ghost of Heart's soul finally passed over
When he read her loving words scribed to her new lover.
© Copyright Maria D'Alessandro 2012. All Rights Reserved.
