Small Ghosts

are fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.

at night he curls by the door or else he follows
her to a different place.
he is quiet, then.
as if he knows the secret challenge.

better if he and all the others screamed.
if the terrible sound reached its cause:
a stranger's ear.

only a dream,
they would tell him, small ghosts.
it is only a dream.