Of Experiencing Ghosts

Consider deprivation
Of sensory perception
That inverts your hierarchies
Of experiencing ghosts.
You unfold your narratives
Out of a richer darkness
Than my voice against your skin.

Because hallucinations
Spook you, as dreams sometimes do,
With exceptional detail,
You deduce away from truth
And believe your ghosts too real
To be false. Consider loss:
The ghosts are you and the real.