Long Forgotten Ghosts

Parapets unmanned
Moat of dried tears
Landscape littered ruins
Museum of unrealized dreams

Crumbled walls
Dungeons bars ajar
Uncovered passageways
Screams of sunken lies

Stale stench of centuries
Shadowed empty corridors
Cold walls bereft of tapestries
Echoed sounds of laughter

Knights darkened in their cups
Brandishment of steel
Ladies still in waiting
Hopes misplaced and unfulfilled

Mossy dampened stones
Spiralized stair
Visitors still and milling
Halls of dancing ghosts