The places with the pasts that haunt...
Those strong efforts to avidly avoid.
The hope to not be haunted eternally.
Those failures of having to go back again.

Those many memories of unhealed hurt...
The remembered faces to blame.
The recalled locations of association.
The leaking of too-long bottled feelings.

The triggered echoes of the mind's scars...
Those instances of being lost in thought.
Those scars that can be re-opened with an ease.
The increased echo on the mind's ignorance.

Those fancied flashbacks of another time...
Those now poisoned reflections.
Those mirages that appear in the view.
The anger and regret at all the change.

The hidden war within the mind.
The concealed past of concrete present.
Those prolonged battles for supremacy.
The aftermath in the eyes' stare.

In the places with the pasts that haunt,
exist those many memories of unhealed hurt,
that trigger the echoes of the mind's scars
with those fancied flashbacks of another time,
allowing the hidden war within the mind.