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a residue
October 25, 2012
I am a remake.
Painted over with borrowed originality,
bright and new;
but black seeps past white
and still, I bleed
through.
A dark ghost
in another home,
settling among the floorboards,
my presence unknown.
Do not think
that because you deny me,
I am not there.
My sighs echo the halls,
each time you draw near.
The disconsolate sound of
“I am here, I am here.”
Except how could you forget
with all the memories I imbue?
They just serve to remind
that I am a copy, a fake;
a residue.
© Ben C., Marblehead, MA
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