This is Day 1 of my 30-Days of Songwriting Challenge
I am excited to announce that I am beginning a songwriting challenge. Every day I shall dedicate at least 30 minutes to songwriting.




A Ghost Like No Other
VERSE 1
What was her favourite colour? - she asks me - wide eyes
something in me recoils
dragging up through the mud and lies
I cough into the soil
PRE-CHORUS 1
The poet whispers - white - like the foam on her lips
'you look more like her each day'
I cling to her growing hips
then clench my fists and pray
CHORUS
She's a ghost, she's your mother
She's a ghost like no other
VERSE 2
How did you two meet? - she asks - in wonder
A blade under my skin
flashes of the day I found her
ice cold, taintless, paper thin
PRE-CHORUS 2
The dreamer sings the song of the muse
before the unexpected breakdown
'don't try to walk in her shoes'
in the moonless night you'd drown
CHORUS
She's a ghost, she's your mother
She's a ghost like no other
VERSE 3
What's it like to have and to have not?
a fathomless refrain
like the quiet after a gunshot
in an endless wall of rain
PRE-CHORUS 3
The storyteller says - she was your downfall
you're captive in a void of questions
'why doesn't anyone call'?
how long does it take to learn this lesson?
CHORUS
She's a ghost, she's your mother
She's a ghost like no other