Haunt -v. visit a place regularly, frequent or be persistently in a place, be persistently in the mind of.
-n. a place frequented by a person, a place frequented by animals for food and drink, a feeding place. (The Concise Oxford Dictionary)
When ghosts exist too long, they walk unquiet.
Phantasms colonise my mind to taunt.
Too many ghosts can cause a spirits’ riot:
far better yet to let them out than haunt
me with their endless games and chatter. Yet
each falls quiet as the time to exorcise
draws closer, to persuade me that they’ve left.
But they live on in yet another guise.
Thus Pain will pull on Anger’s shoddy clothes,
whilst Guilt arrives in dark Depression’s gown.
But I’ll seek those I’ve come to know and loathe.
For I know “haunt” can also be a noun.
I shall refuse to heed their changing faces;
I will expel them from their feeding places.