The Possibility of You

By George J. Cardy

I want you to haunt me,

Run your footsteps down my spine,

Ring the tattoo of your heartbeats

That remember you as mine,

(Which is better than forgetting;

And be healed, they say, with Time.)

I want you to haunt me,

With the wails, you never cried;

With the flicker, shadow dances

I once felt you dance inside;

I’ll imagine hallway footsteps -

Rattle chains I’ve had to hide.

I want you to haunt me,

Just the way you always do,

As the dates pass by, remembered,

Though the memories made were few,

I shall carry close the haunting

Possibilities of you.

George is a writer and Mum from London, UK.  She started writing poetry just over a year ago during the first Covid pandemic lockdown.  Her poetry has been published in Sunday Morning at the River 2020 Winter Anthology, Crooked Jukebox: the 6ress, (Issue 2) and the Latte Edit Issue 3.  She also has poems featured in Free Verse Revolution Lit ‘Issue 2: hermes, the kaleidoscope,’ Mental Zines ‘Issue 3: Inside,’ the Inaugural issue of Handwritten & co Magazine and online publication Fizz.  She has work included in Beyond the Veil Press’ forthcoming Anthology, published later this year.

 George has also worked in theatre and television. 

Instagram: @george.verses