Spirited away, your swamps’ moody ghost

somehow he returned to you.

Your newly found creature, nearly forgotten,

and then you remember somehow, he was your son.

 

He was a child, unable to speak, when he was

spirited away, your swamps’ moody ghost,

just as he came out of his shell hearing his mom’s

mixed up bedtime stories and

 

In the grip of her attending to business, he was

spirited away, your swamps moody ghost.

Yes he was spirited away by someone he once needed

who didn’t need him anymore.

 

Spirited away, your swamps moody ghost

by the only person

he ever needed who didn’t even say goodnight when he was

Spirited away, your swamps’ moody ghost.