nightwalker

who is this ghost? 
she shares a bedchamber 
in your hearts palace
dark spirit afoot 
pounding wet steps in the night
making meals of light
peeking through braided lash
pouncing on morning's thumb
then trade 
nightmare for waking dream
heartbeats speed the fiction
but she waits in vein 
for the night's wet truth
who is this ghost?
who is this dreamer?
are we so unequal
the waking and the dead?