Ghost

When talking to myself,
I take a tone I’ve learned
 
from you – not of boyish charm,
but probing and severe –
 
to say, some things are clear
and some withdrawn from sight.
 
A cyclist is only such
while seated on a bike,
 
a sleeper while asleep.
These forms are only forms
 
fulfilled, as you are now
no more than this – a tone.

Devin Johnston