Poetry Drafts / 13 May 2016

BUTTONS

I have buttons you know
and if you press them
in the right order I will
sing for you forever.

Continuously pressing them
in the wrong order and
I will slowly, and not gracefully
explode.

Till death do us part – it
could get messy.

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.