RDP Sunday: CHAMBER

The White Garden in the Moonlight, Gerberoy (ca. 1925-1930) Henri Le Sidaner

I want to live in a haunted house

with dead flowers at my door

I want the doors to creak and moan

I want to hear the floorboards groan

I want to live in a haunted house

full of ghosts and moldy bones

I want to hear Poe’s Raven

tapping at my chamber door

And if I can’t live in a haunted house

while my heart still pumps and my body is cozy and warm

I can always come back as a fearsome shade

and haunt my newly dark and empty home.