Ghosts

I've never seen you,

though you've been blamed 

for consequences from the past.

Labeled:

Collateral damage,

 skeletons hiding in closets, 

genes of ancestors possessing, inhabiting

and influencing actions, genes, events

a specter come to torment.

Where are the ghosts of my future?

They don't even make honorable mention.

I'm sure some action I take now 

will influence it. Why isn't that a ghost?

And what of now? What haunts it?

Charles Dickens had 

more to say than I

who simply wonder why

that "ghost" is reserved for history.

It remains to me a mystery.