of us 
who've 
hurt others 
most, 
the far scarier 
premise 
is: there's 
no such thing 
as ghosts.
Think of all 
the soulless 
afflictions 
we secretly 
never hoped 
we'd outlive,
all the harms 
we expected 
to dog us 
for years:
defiantly 
silenced, 
quit, done
away with—
