Ghost Town

Was it a ghost town

I had walked into?

Not a soul to be seen around

in the fields strewn

with skeletal remains

of humans and animals

I knocked on doors

peered through peepholes

only darkness met the eye

A shiver ran up my spine

Where had I reached in

my search for nirvana?

This place was certainly

where tragedy had struck

without warning, suddenly

leaving an emptiness

unexplainable behind

Perhaps an epidemic

of huge proportions

had wiped the population

clean from the face of the earth.

Now in my loneliness

have learnt to survive.