Ghosts

I love like the ghosts within me
The shadows of my past personalities
Who loved without barriers
Unguarded and unlayered

These spirits dance within me
To their own secret melodies
Tunes belonging to each intimacy
Before they died of their own vulnerability

These phantoms rot within me
Victims of an unforeseeable destiny
That I refuse to live again
I mirror their affection, hidden under the protection
Of their whispered lessons
Warning me of my fragility