Wars Ghost

• Callum Blakeney, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2013

I saw the people in the hall

There ghost are living inside the walls

I heard them crying while you slept

I heard them breaking things after you left

I watched you crawl into my bed

With curses spilling from your head

You said "We're just the walking dead"

So I pulled the trigger and we floated off

I hear the engines

I see the airplanes

They're pouring from the chest

They fill the air

And burn and bury just like the rest