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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359365" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A True Ghost Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My grandfather's house at Maypajo<br>It was built in year nineteen o' five<br>Of the sturdy wood 'kamagong'<br>And for ninety long years it survived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It had delicate capiz- shelled windows<br>And hard wooden planks for its floors<br>Wide beams on ceilings that show<br>Fine architecture and Spanish decor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the twenties it held various parties<br>And its rooms may have held many guests<br>My aunts and my Mom were real beauties<br>And I'm sure many gents laid their quests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the second World War had been deadly<br>The Japanese fired many a mortar<br>Its plastered walls bared testimony<br>To the ugly devastation of war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That house witnessed many departures<br>As its tenants soon married away.<br>Grandfather, its permanent fixture<br>He would walk its rooms night and day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the years saw him slowly yielding<br>To the rigors of approaching old age<br>Like his old house that was depreciating<br>He was closing and turning Time's page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At death bed he had wanted to see<br>(For the house in his will was not clear) <br>His second daughter, my dear Aunt Nellie<br>Was summoned for some things she should hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But alas, it was rather too late<br>And the dying man's word left unsaid<br>For Death was the guest who can't wait<br>When Aunt Nellie came, he was dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aunt Nellie claimed the property<br>Said she had the title to her name<br>Though her four siblings begged to disagree<br>Her lawyers legalized it all the same</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The house boldly stood through the years, <br>But there were some weird happenings<br>The neighbors and people had fears, <br>Some saw an old man at night... walking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some said when they looked for my aunt<br>An old man peered through the window<br>Informed them that the house was vacant<br>And to church my aunt with her son did go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My own brother's nanny had witnessed it<br>In a story that turned up our hairs<br>She turned to see an old man without feet<br>In slow motion descending the stairs! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We showed her Grandfather's old photo<br>And she point blank said 'That's him! '<br>The man she saw in white tuxedo<br>Had been roaming the house at whim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though I have never seen a ghost<br>And consider them just halloween fun<br>This true story is fearful at the most<br>In that house, the old man there walks on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>-<br>This is a true story, and the house, though sold and renovated, <br>still has its 'permanent tenant' and many have seen him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright Cynthia Buhain Baello<br>February 6,2010<br>Philippines</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cynthia+Buhain-Baello">Cynthia Buhain-Baello</a><div class=q>
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It was built in year nineteen o' five
Of the sturdy wood 'kamagong'
And for ninety long years it survived.

It had delicate capiz- shelled windows
And hard wooden planks for its floors
Wide beams on ceilings that ..."></div>
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