Phantom

[alatos]

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As sun-burnt masses scurried to their cars,
the black front thundered towards the emptied shore;
the lightning tore ionic, spectral scars
across the sky above the sea-side moor.
A darkness drawn by winds and cast by clouds
had thrown its witching shadow on the sands;
it drove away the sunshine with the crowds,
to storm the castles built by tiny hands.

And there I saw her, standing in the tide
that foamed and frothed and swirled around her feet.
She turned to me and smiled. Something less,
maybe more, than human electrified
my heart within those eyes: it skipped a beat…
a phantom in a yellow summer dress.


As sun-burnt masses scurried to their cars,
the black front thundered towards the emptied shore;
the lightning tore ionic, jagged scars
across the sky above the sea-side moor.
A darkness drawn by winds and cast by clouds
had thrown its witching shadow on the sands;
it drove away the sunshine and the crowds,
to storm the castles built with tiny hands.

And there I saw her, standing in the tide
that sprayed and pulled and swirled around her feet.
She turned to me and smiled. Something less,
maybe more, than human electrified
my heart within those eyes: it skipped a beat…
a phantom in a yellow summer dress.