u/Lady_Lena_x

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Grandpa says I'm an old soul

Mum says I'm wise beyond my years

Dad says I'm so mature for my age

They think it's a compliment

It's not.

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I never had the knack to be naive

The margin to make mistakes

The chance to be a child -

I ran before I walked

I sang before I talked

I grew before I could take root.

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There's a cloud over our family tree

And they're all too busy standing in the sun

To shelter me from the rain

Or to notice the blight.

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Grandpa says I'm an old soul

Mum says I'm wise beyond my years

Dad says I'm so mature for my age

They think it's a compliment

It's not.

~

I never had the knack to be naive

The margin to make mistakes

The chance to be a child -

I ran before I walked

I sang before I talked

I grew before I could take root.

~

There's a cloud over our family tree

And they're all too busy standing in the sun

To shelter me from the rain

Or to notice the blight.

~

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I wish I could haunt someone who wasn't so boring.

All she does, day by day, is the same:

Watch TV, read books, video games,

Microwave meals, takeaways, salads.

It's all incredibly dull.

And I'm the unlucky spirit

who has to watch.

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She's always in her pajamas,

She rarely has anyone over.

Doesn't she realise she has a life?

She's not using it.

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She's not even afraid of me.

I’m not sure she knows I’m here.

I tried the usual tricks,

Moving things around, nightmares,

Cold chills, whispers in the dark.

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But she’s so forgetful she doesn't remember

Where she put her stuff in the first place,

And when she finally goes to sleep at 3am

Her dreams are so weird

mine don't stick out much.

She runs hot, like a furnace,

so the chills are welcome.

My whispers barely make a dent

In the swirling whirling mess of thoughts

Always humming in her head.

There's too many to count.

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I thought about murder,

But the trouble is I can't take the chance.

With a gruesome or early death,

It’s likely that she'd return as a ghost,

Like me. I wouldn't be rid of her,

I'd be stuck with her for all eternity

In spectral togetherness.

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All in all, I’m thoroughly dissatisfied.

Ghosting isn't glamorous,

Or fun, or fulfilling.

It's tedious, and annoying.

In fact, if anything,

She's haunting me,

Completely unawares.

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All this to say,

I’m looking into human exorcism,

If such a thing exists.

And if this is a service you offer.

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If not, I beg you to come

And banish me instead.

Cleanse this space of my essence

And free me from this tedium.

I would gladly face the unknown

of the great beyond -

Hell can't be much worse than this.

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Yours in ernest,

And desperation,

I have forgotten

what my name once was,

so I shall sign this simply as

HELP

I need to make a new character and I can't decide what to be.