Failed Haunt

If you are glad to see one go,

Then you will rejoice

At that one’s death,

So let’s just agree on that

And call a spade a spade.

And let’s just call a card a card,

And while we’re at it, a queen, a bitch,

And wonder that we

Can’t give up on hearts?

But I have felt the haunt set in.

It tries to find a foothold of guilt.

But you will gain no ground at all with me.

So go and play your reindeer games

On someone else’s watch,

For your disembodied shadows

Can’t make time with me,

And you haven’t got the wherewithal

To shake me out of my happy tree,

For I have found a foothold there, myself.

-jenn long