my third eye sees ghosts
my third eye sees ghosts.
ghosts of the past,
ghosts of unspoken words,
ghosts of versions of me
i had to bury just to stay alive.
i don’t fear them —
i recognize them.
some ghosts aren’t spirits,
they’re memories with teeth.
they’re choices you didn’t make,
paths you didn’t take,
people you couldn’t save,
and emotions you abandoned
before they got the chance
to abandon you.
the ghosts i see
aren’t trying to haunt me —
they’re trying to teach me.
they show up in silence,
in late-night thoughts,
in sudden flashes when i’m driving,
in the gaze of people from my past
who still look at me like i’m someone
they almost understood
but never really reached.
chasing ghosts
isn’t me wanting the past back.
it’s me wanting closure
that never came.
answers i had to carve myself.
truths nobody was brave enough to say.
and maybe that’s what the third eye really does —
it doesn’t show the supernatural.
it shows the emotional.
it shows the unfinished business
you try to walk away from
but keep tripping over.
ghosts don’t live in the world —
they live in your awareness.
and i’ve become too awake
for anything unresolved
to hide from me.
i don’t chase ghosts
because i’m stuck.
i chase them
because i refuse to let the past
hold power over my present.
i chase them
to free myself.
i chase them
to close old doors
so new ones open clean.
my third eye sees ghosts —
but it also sees truth.
and that’s why they can’t scare me.
not anymore.
— Mr. Mak
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