Is it possible

To see without eyes?

Or think with no mind?

You say no

But I can show you different

First my father died

A noose replaced his necktie

Then mother

One too many sleeping pills

My cousin next

champion swimmer

Found floating

Enough blood to fill a swimming pool

Nine year old sister

Didn't show up

to school in her bus

She was under it

Grandfather

Passed in his sleep

Aunt Judith

Tounge-tied

On her wrist

My best friend

Eyes gouged out

Arms where legs should be

And now

left here it's only me

The house

Dark and quiet

This room is square

My bed in one corner

In the other-a chair

In the light

Empty

But darkness falls

And eerie shadows

Dance the walls

I know he's there

He's waiting, patiently

In the chair that breathes

And lives and sees

It's watching me

I can't see him but

He can see me

I hear his presence

Whispers so quietly

"Time to die"