Do you believe in ghosts ?

"Do you believe in ghosts ?"

“Do you believe in ghosts nanna?” asked my daughter

“Yes and No” I said, complicating the matter,

In the day, when there is light and everything is bright

I am a rational man, my reason sharp and my logic tight,

But as light fades, beckoning the night

reason slackens and imagination awakens !

Invisible figures and eerie voices taunt me and frighten me,

the courage by day abandons me. Doubts and fears buzz like a bee ;

A proud atheist by day, I am shaking in my pants,

Pleading to the gods, muttering chants

But when again the night slips away

I am by daylight .. bright and gay

the previous night, now an amusing secret

between me and myself, to none I will let

and now I am a rational man, flaunting reason and logic,

Until darkness seeds doubts, when I'll need god and magic