Those feelings

The ones that hold you back

Make you want to stop

stay home and hide

they haunt me

 

You get that sinking feeling

an ache in the pit of your stomach

can’t shake it

leaves you feeling helpless

and hopeless

 

Memories

that you thought you’d hidden

or dealt with

come flooding back

vivid as if it was just today

haunting you like a ghost

 

Words that were said

and words unsaid

hanging in  the air

barging into your head

when least expected

like a visit from a spirit past

 

Feels so real

the hurt is so raw

so painful

yet it was years ago

consigned to history

 

Everyone has ghosts

memories from the past

a history

and everyone ignores it

don’t give it a second thought

but they’re still haunted