My house is haunted
By the ghosts of trees
On whose graveyard it stands.
I’m afraid to sleep.
Every night I hear them whisper
Stories of their times to each other.
No green. No brown.
Only grey. The colour of concrete.
The colour of ash after they burned down.
I have mud on my hands.
I have their blood on my hands.
Beneath my house their roots will rot and die.
My house is haunted
By the ghosts of trees
On whose graveyard it stands.