Ghost Pictures

Ghost pictures play
Like sideshows to a different time,
And I'm sorry
If this line's not so bright.

But faces, etched with age
Take energy from me.
And sometimes I see why...

Here and there,
I look at the mirror and see
Ghost pictures staring back at me.

Horror and all,
Ravaged by age,
Love taken away,
Or cast to the sea.

Ghost pictures play
like sideshows to a different time,
And I'm sorry
This last line's not so bright.