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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