Slipknot

You can't trap a ghost: it's not
A being you can contain
Or fool, even when it's you.
Weird enough to observe it,
To savor the sensation
Of a presence in your world
When you know you're good as dead.

The gauziness is a ruse
To remind you all's a ruse.
Your ghost reaches out to you.
Contrary to what I thought
And wrote down nine years ago,
Love is about the right time,
Not about the right person.