I was only a child
when I learned how to fly
I wanted to touch the colors of the bleeding sun and then I fell from the sky
You never saw me again
not even when I returned
you never noticed my broken heart
or how my wings were burned
But if they tell you they saw me
do a swan dive off that bridge
Remember I’ve always been more afraid to die than I ever was to live
And on the day I disappear
You’ll all forget I was ever here
I’ll float around from coast to coast And sing about how you made me a ghost.
—Douglas J. Blackman, “The Day I Became a Ghost”
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