Possession

Children should be in there beds, this time at night.

Not out playing in the graveyard where I preside.

Bothering my sleep.

Provoking other ghost.

So young, compared to my many years of decay.

What a beautiful girl I see.

What a beautiful, young bride she would be for me.

I come up behind her, I brush her cheek.

She shivers, at the cold, touch of me.

She turns to look, but she doesn't see me.

'Follow me,' I whisper so quietly in her ear.

She goes pale. Terrified of my unseen voice.

'Don't be afraid,' I whisper, 'I won't hurt you.' I brush her neck. I touch her hand. I have a solid grip on her. I slowly lead her away from those other, miscreants. I lead her to the mausoleum.

She stops. Fear seeps through her beautiful soul.

'No.'

'Come,' I say, tugging on her hand. She pulls her hand out of my grip.

'I won't hurt you,' I say, 'I won't hurt you.'

She backs away from me. She slowly starts to turn.

'No,' we say in union.

She starts to run, I follow her.

I cannot lose her.

She is the one I have been waiting for.
I follow her home.

I follow her as she crawls through her window.

She sneaks in her house.

Her parents will never know.

She doesn't know I'm here.

But I see she is still white with mortal terror.

She undresses before me.

And I long to touch her.

But I cannot.

She must not know I am here.

How she is beautiful.

Oh how beautiful.

I reach out to her, with my icy cold, dead, unseen fingers.

As she moves toward them, I pull back.

I must not scare her.

I must make sure she is perfectly content.

She slips on her nightgown, over her perfect body.

She crawl into bed.

And I watch her fall asleep.
She sleeps.

She slumbers.

Then, the morning sun comes up.

She wakes.

My girl awakes.

I watch her as she leaves her bed.

How her nightgown clings to her body just so.

I follow her.

Everywhere she goes, I'm right there with her.

I love to be her stalker.

I follow her to school.

Through the crowded halls, I send chills through her friends.

I see who I'm going to possess, to make her fall in love with me.
How lovely she is.

I want her.

I want her.

I want her!

I must have her.

I will possess the boy she wants.

That will make her want me.

She will be mine.

She will be my girl.

Then I shall steal her soul.

Possess her in whole.