What Ghosts

What ghosts want has greatly changed across the ages.                      They used to
                                                                                                         want forgiveness
or understanding    how the prayers worked down     into the interstices; they once


stood beside insomniacs                 speaking softly almost chanting             bring me
who's demanding                               another entry                                but our own


ghosts, the recent ones,   don't ask much;  they just waver on the verges,  a doorsill 
                                                                                                                             can
empty them,   and the room beyond,   they do not want,    and this is the cause of 
                                                                                                                  great pain