Poetry Drafts / 15 May 2016

NEVER FULLY CHARGED

Sustained by their love

and his lust,

the purple eyed vampire

sucked him dry,

wreaking havoc

in the fragile,

feeble mind

of the innocent child.

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.