Phantom

PHANTOM

-noun

1. an apparition or spectre.

2. an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion.

3. a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.

4. an illustration, part of which is given a transparent effect so as to permit representation of details otherwise hidden from view, as the inner workings of a mechanical device.

-adj.

5. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory.

6. Electricity . noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit.

7. named, included, or recorded but non-existent; fictitious.

 

 

It stood transfixedWaiting for a fate of some sort
Too scared to call its parents
A feathery phantom 
In the making.