Exceptional A poem for the people who are not sure who they are anymore. I Am Just A Ghost by Shelby Egnew

I Am Just A Ghost   I am just a ghost- always floating in and out  of all the places in my life  that I'd forgotten all about.    Sometimes I'm here, sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I wait for them to see me, but most often, they do not.    I watch them from the darkness as they go about their lives; making friends and lovers while I hide them from my strife.    I don't know how it happened, but I used to be like them. Then one day I was gone,  and knew I wasn't whole again.    I am just a shadow  of the things that used to be. I wonder still, as life goes by, if anyone remembers me?  Do they remember how I used to laugh?  And how I used to dream?  For though I wait here, haunting, I'm so much more than what I seem.    I wish that I was real again- that I remembered how to feel.  I'd write my story with a pen and close it gently with a seal.    For some young soul who needs a tale, of love and loss too stormy for this broken soul to sail.    And perhaps one day she'll need it, to move through the vicious gale.   For even if I'm not remembered, I would lose it all so fast, to save that girl from walking  through a painful, lonesome past.

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