Ghost

Yen Lo
1 min readJan 14, 2019

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(Image description: A black and white Victorian-era photo featuring a frightened woman seated while a skeleton creeps up behind her. Source: PurpleClover.com

Standing in the doorways,

In front of the bathroom mirror,

There stands an apparition.

It looks likes me.

Its sadness mirrors mine.

In shadowy corridors;

In the darkest corner of the bedroom,

There weeps a ghost.

It weeps silently while the house sleeps.

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Yen Lo
Yen Lo

Written by Yen Lo

Not concerned with propriety. Liberation now. Contrarian by design. Black mother. Somebody’s daughter. Guerrilla in the mist. Imperfect Christian.

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