Vanquishing Specters

I can climb high mountains

I've done this in exhaustion

I can survive hellish crashes

I've done this in agony

I can help birth a baby

I've done this with unmitigated awe

I can defend my honor

I've done this in fear

I can defend a woman's honor

I've done this too in fear

I can raise a child

I've done this a lot with much reward

I can cry in a movie

I've done this often (almost every time)

I can make love to a woman

I've done this, I hope well

I can endure anguish

I've done this too often

I can live my life

I've done this but not completely

I can adore a woman

I've done this with peril in ecstasy

I can surrender my self

I've done this in great error

I can search for God

I've done this without much result

I've done all these things with

perhaps unwarranted pride

But I have yet not been able to kill a ghost