Poetry Drafts / 20 May 2016

IN THE WINDY NIGHT

In the windy night

dark and howling

you await me with

patience

so still and moist,

dripping like

a blanket left out

on a rainy summers

day, I will not lay

a hand, I will wait

until they come

and sort you out

my dear

leaking roof

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.