Poetry Drafts / 13 April 2016

VEILED BEAUTY

Uncomfortable without your
make-up
your face-paint sprayed
brushed layered lust
hiding you
hiding your
better self denying us
skin on skin
touching
a pretty face
hiding

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.