I Dreamed Your Ghost Came Poem by Patti Masterman

I dreamed your ghost came
To say goodbye, if that was it-
Because it was nothing that
You said; you stared instead,
And touched some things.

Your eyes seemed far away
And wise; I saw no pain there,
No surprise. I spoke but
You gave no reply. I hoped
You still knew who I was-
And hoped someday,
You'd come again.

When the dead come back
To see the things they've left,
And they are different than before,
It's just they're in a different world;
Peering through half-opened doors-
Someday we'll go there too and find
The reasons self seems left behind.