Poetry Drafts / 24 April 2016

IN NOT SO MANY WORDS

I told her

to kill him

in not so

many words

and by

mutual consent

we ended up

in torment,

never to be

the same again.

About The Author

Hayden Veil

In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.