Forever Searching


Laughter echoes through the halls
When the lord and master calls
The old clock with its thirteenth chime
Signifies arrival time
An eerie mist passes through
Walls, doors and room to room
The mist is from the master’s soul
The visits to attain his goal
To find the place to rest and be
Finally forever free

The laughter’s from those that mock
The ones that haunt, and taunt and shock
They watch the lord and hear his plea
’Please, please, help me be free’

The master’s mist must never stop
Its search to find the phantom clock
For the time it keeps is the very key
That will allow the lord be free
But time is also the poor lord’s curse
And so cruel it is within his search
As he must find the clock by the thirteenth bell
The arrival time to his ghostly hell

13 responses to “Forever Searching”

  1. Visionkeeper avatar

    Wow, that pic is somewhat of an illusion…The aura around the face seems to move and waver about….Can’t you help poor master out TL? VK

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      It does have an eerie effect to it, VK, doesn’t it?
      And I can’t help him… his plight is out of my hands…

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        1. Tom Merriman avatar

          That said, anything can happen…

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          1. Visionkeeper avatar

            Hope lives…..

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  2. prenin avatar

    Good poem Tom – VERY Spooky!!! 🙂

    God Bless!

    Prenin.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thanks, Prenin – that was the feel I was aiming for!

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  3. colonialist avatar

    OK, I am duly spooked out.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Mwahahaha.
      Thanks, Col… things are a little spooky around here at the moment.

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  4. Sue Dreamwalker avatar

    Brilliant poem Tom, and Loved the luminescent ghost 🙂

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thanks, Sue. I am really pleased with how the photo turned out… and the tale, for that matter!

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