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The Voices in Our Heads
Fred Carroll

There is a ghost

Within us

And you know it

Because it

Talks to you

All the time.

And it is you.

And is not you.

And it is committed

To not always

Being your friend.

Not always

On your side.

It might even

Hate you sometimes

But can love you too,

Somehow.

And it is part of you

Forever.

Maybe part of everything.

I notice this

Whenever my

Twenty pound terrier

Goes growling after

A Great Dane.

Or when I see a

Jaybird

Chasing a cat.

Or when I find myself

Still thinking about

Skydiving

At 79.

—
Fred Carroll is a retired high school English teacher.

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