Our Secret Ghost

While going to school for creative writing, we learned meaning could be found in the form of  writing as well as what was textually written. This is a little example of how meaning can be suggested through the visual manipulation of text.

A chair sits alone in a room left empty, and its been empty a while.
The story is untold; how it was bought, who sat in it, what they did while reclining there. Who were they talking to?

Who

It stands alone and implies that a person once existed within those green walls during a time when the paint was fresh and unblemished.  Who enjoyed it, but is no longer around? Either through death or rejection, the chair was left

Abandoned

We are left only to imagine the story of the chair, the room, or the person who sat there. Perhaps our mind will play a trick and afford us an apparition to bring meaning, or a metaphor will develop and attach itself to a painful past. What does this picture mean to

You?