Lo-ghost

“We’ll all be ghosts one day. Some of us are ghosts already. We see you. The song is a ghost, too, passing through us, invisible - the noise in the night that possesses us ‘till we shake and throw ourselves down. Some haunt us for years, banging the cupboard doors and throwing open the drawers in our minds to remind us of who we were. When the song takes us, we see what others have seen; we feel what others have felt. We remember what someone else has lived, though we didn’t live it, although we tried. You are the medium. How loud will our purposeful negatives speak? What won’t we be when we are not? What will echo in the vacuum when we leave the room for the last time? We are not afraid of that which we have lost. There is nothing to fear in the song that ends, except the prospect of never hearing it again. But they will always throw the books from the shelves. We cannot lose them once they’re in us. You are the mouthpiece. We remember those who are waiting, those who have waited, and those who waited too long. We shout into the night so that we may feel: ‘here is what we left behind, here is who left us behind.’ We remember. After it all. After all of it. After, let us sing them out, the spectres, let them wind from us like ectoplasm. We will drape them over this city. They are heavy to carry. Cut the rope, let them go. We will all be ghosts one day. Some of us are ghosts already.” Lo-ghost is an alt-pop duo from Cape Town.