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Phantom

April 5, 2012
By tjaguirre BRONZE, Payson, Arizona
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tjaguirre BRONZE, Payson, Arizona
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Favorite Quote:
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
George Orwell

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The phantom presses coolly
Against my body.
Not warm.
Not solid.

There is comfort
In the company of the ghost.
Yet when I reach,
My grasp falls into emptiness.

I long for form.
I dream of substance.
But I am left with a doppelganger,
And an ache in my heart.

Why does the spirit
Taunt me? This mirage seems so real.
But the oasis is dry
And my thirst cannot be quenched.

I am haunted by
this apparition.
Glimpses are my consolation,
my lost Eurydice.

But the image remains.
I stared too strongly into
The light and now when I
Close my eyes, I only see the sun.

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When you miss someone so badly that it hurts.
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