Thursday, October 2, 2025

π—Ÿπ—œπ—§π—˜π—₯𝗔π—₯𝗬: “Her Ghost Between Us” by Christian Dave T. Saagundo

 


Published by: Athena Nicole Palatino

Date Published: October 2, 2025

Time Published: 6:05 PM


Category: Poetry 

Theme: Yearning for a love that still eclipses the present 


I hold you close,

But my arms are reaching for her.

Every time I breathe your name,

Her ghost answers back.


You smile—

And I almost convinced myself it’s enough,

Until the memory of her laugh, 

Cuts through me like glass.


It’s not fair to you.

It’s not fair to me. 

But when I kiss you,

It is her lips I’m tasting. 


You think you’ve healed me.

But I am a wound that never closed,

A ruin dressed in borrowed warmth.

And though you’re here,

Alive, breathing, loving—

My heart still bleeds for the one,

I can only touch in memory. 


God, how I wish it was her instead of you. 

Not because you lack, 

But because she was the beginning and the end, 

And you…

You are the silence between.



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