Trick or Treat

I'm a ghost that everyone can see,
A spiritual guise, a flesh tapestry.
A vaporous cloud of orgasmic debris,
A family's cursed plasmic monstrosity.

I'm a ghost no one wants to see,
Conspicuously disguised as the world wants me to be.
My parent's once proud scholastic delight,
Now a nightmare of disappointment and fright.

Every morning I wake and rise from bed,
Go through gyrations without words ever said.
My room is my haven, my cryptic lair,
I look in the mirror but nobody's there.

I float down halls and stay out of sight,
I lurk in the dark, avoid the light.
I am a shadow, a wisp of cold air.
Turn a corner and I might be there.

The masks that I wear are my own flesh and blood,
I'd shed my skin if only I could.
I cloak my identity, hide unaware,
I invoke anonymity with makeup and hair.

I haunt my oppressors, terrorize their sleep.
I am fraught with transgressions, its retributions I seek.
I'm distraught with beseechers that criticize and preach,
I'm fed up with teachers that do more than teach.

I am an apparition in most peoples' minds,
In perpetual transition, my soul left behind.
Torment's my legacy, my skin is my shroud,
I'm on a different frequency, shouting out loud.

My friends all fear me, my parents don't hear me,
Those I'm around can't stand to be near me.
Everyone looks and peers right through me.
Its the gawking and staring that always gets to me.

My parents don't beat me, mistreat me or speak to me.
They'd rather ignore me, deplore me than adore me.
It gets pretty lonely when there's no one to share,
The thoughts and emotions a lost soul has to bear.

I am a ghost both conscious and alive,
I live in most households just trying to survive.
A teenage ethereal being with no voice or dignity,
A vision worth seeing, a conspicuous reckoning.

So remember when you're out there on October 31st,
When you ring certain doorbells expect the worst.
Behind every door there may be laughter and screams,
Ghosts may be after more than candy it seems.

Count all your blessings, avoid spectral beings,
A spirit can mess with your hopes and your dreams.
Don't be surprised if the apparition you see,
Is one all too familiar this Halloween.

Trick or treat...



Copyright © October 2009
Kevin Mooney

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