Reflection

"Remorse — is Memory — awake — / Her Parties all astir — / A Presence of Departed Acts — / At window — and at Door — / Its Past — set down before the Soul / And lighted with a Match — / Perusal — to facilitate — / And help Belief to stretch — / Remorse is cureless — the Disease / Not even God — can heal — / For 'tis His institution — and / The Adequate of Hell —"
— Remorse by Emily Dickinson