Haunted

There's a haunted house inside me.

It retains unwanted anger, regrets,

and shame.

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It's dark, and it's spooky.

The cobwebs hold hostile emotions.

All that's positive and constructive

seems to have died. 

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It projects psychological untruths.

It needs to be demolished--

burned down and rebuilt.

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Now!

Author's Note

Thanks Pat for the burned down line.

Reviews

[Lorry]

The pasts regrets linger within us all Relic. Sometimes I wish they weren't quite as loud or as irritating, but you do what you have to do to exorcise those ghosts.
Personally, my preference is to do things I know they hate, like silence and meditating in silence, or reading in silence while wearing noise cancelling headphones, just in case a memory of them talking infiltrates my mind. (Not to keep the noise out, but to keep them escaping and infecting someone else)
But failing that, a ritual of burning should work, just make sure you aren't near enough the flames to be burned and just the memories along with anything physical from them should suffice.
Perhaps a mantra to remind them that they belong to the past and to go back from whence they came wouldn't hurt either.
Regrets, I've had a few,
but then again, I try not to talk about them in case I jinx them awake... so someone almost sang! 😃

[Relic]

Thanks for a great comment, Lorry.

[The Analog Kid]

Hi TIm, I like the brevity of this poem. We can become prisoners of our own mind and the negative thoughts it projects. It feel like a "time to pull the trigger moment" has come for the narrator. It is a constant battle to take the plunge and burn it all down.

[Relic]

Thank you Pat. Burn it down....I should have thought about that. Thanks for the comment.

[The Analog Kid]

Absolutely. Glad you liked my comment. Happy New Year!

[Relic]

Happy New Year to you to. :)