EXORCISE THOSE GHOSTS!

Unbidden, there comes an image 

Which fills you with an angry rage -

An unprovoked insult, not even fair,

Tho' to retaliate then, you didn't dare. 

But now in all these many leisure moments 

Come thoughts of all those snide comments;

Ghostly shadows now haunt your mind -

Of people you know who had been unkind. 

Words, only words, yet they stubbornly stay 

Behind, utterances which give only pain;

Well-wishers or ill, they seem like masks -

To be truly rid of them all is all one asks.

Exorcise those ghosts, drive them away, 

Banish those spectres, come what may;

Make those wraiths vanish, give them no room, 

And as they fade away, so does the gloom. 

When one expels those powerful phantoms of the past..

One finds peace of mind in the now that truly does last.