Recollections Poem by James McLain

They would come to visit me
when I was little in the dark
remembering back
that far do I think that they
for some one else still are?
I back then because
of her pride lived in public housing.
There was a vacant apartment at
her mother's.
Where unlike today it was then
safe because unwed woman
back then with innocent children
were looked on as some kind
of promiscuous woman who had
three kids with no husband.
She was severely mentally I'll
a sore subject
and grew only worse as she aged
it was why my real father left her.
Ghosts were real for me very real
my dreams were worse and all
that there was and all that there is
came to pass and existed some
where else.
Alternative universes
where if in this one life is good then
in that one something worse than
death vibrates back and forth
inside your head two minds talking back.
No one will for a while be able to
determine which event set into place
the chain of events that precursor
of things yet to come that came first.
Vibrations atonal frequency's strings
that move on the subatomic level.
When but for the briefest of moment's
here some where else
is where you can only breath water and
it's this some where else that they dwell.