Becoming a Ghost

We’ve all been ghosts
at one time or another,
returning to places
we once belonged.

Today, I became a phantom,
haunting the halls
of classrooms where I once told stories, taught math, read poems;
a place where I spent more hours than home.

At the school’s winter fair
I passed parents and teachers leading activities
in classrooms I ensouled,
but now, being retired,
were empty of my presence,
liminal to my passing.

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