Ghosts

To all the ghosts I used to know,

With your transparent questions

And your opaque answers;

If you happen upon my way again,

Leave me alone.

I'm unsure if it was your intention,

To possess my body just to see if you could.

But you did, trailing ectoplasm,

And I'd like you, to

Leave me alone.

I don't need another exorcism to rid me of your spirit.

I don't need to be haunted by your cold embrace.

I don't need to be reminded of my own foolish curiosity;

Toying with that board as if nothing could penetrate.

I don't need Death to taunt my loneliness from After.

I don't need your frosted eyes to seek shelter in my hollows behind the veil.

All I need,

From here on out,

Is for you, to

Leave Me Alone.