The Prismatic Ghost Of You

Our Bubble Burst And You Went With It…

Danielle Elizabeth Andrews
2 min readAug 28, 2023
Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash

Every day, everywhere, I feel your presence.
It lingers.
You’re just out of reach.
The ghost of you is ever-present.
You haunt me so.

Will you ever come back?
I yearningly beseech.
I never want to let you go.
My life was an echo before you.
Loneliness reigns in your absence.

Someone explain this all to me.
Please make it all make sense.
My heart beat for you.
It barely sputters now.
My very existence feels incomplete.
There’s no replacing you,
No one could ever dare compete.

I stare at the prisms dancing softly on the wall.
Light and crystal come together to put on a beautiful display.
“The rainbows are dancing!” That’s what you would always say.

Giggling excitedly, as you dance and play.
Hopping up and down,
Trying to capture a wriggling rainbow there in your tiny palm.
So ecstatic at the sight,
There was no way you’d sit and…

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Danielle Elizabeth Andrews

An avid reader who also loves writing about all sorts of things (Life, love, family, books, poetry, the world around us)