Breaking Free Poem by Ferdinand L Quintos

It took me a long time
to write free-verse poems,

an eerie tale lies behind
persisting in my mind,

each time I began a poem
I felt some entities behind me,

looking over my shoulders,
breathing down my neck,

I had the feeling they were
former English lit teachers,

until I finally got fed-up
and read about exorcism

when they came I chanted 'egosum
pactum dominum nostrum, '

I didn't even know what
those Latin words meant,

but an odd feeling ran over me,
I heard chains break, I was free.