Our lives are filled with ghosts
Skeleton ties
To people we have loved
Their shadows reappear
When memory breathes life into them
Shades of our parents
Impressions of old lovers
We paint a new
On the faces of strangers and friends
That enter our lives
Our ghosts
They visit us again and again
Until we learn
What they have come to teach us
And master the puzzle
We are partners in
We wrestle with our ghosts
Until we put them to sleep
Silence them
By listening to them at last