Poetry Drafts / 21 May 2016

SNOG A TREE

I would snog a tree
if it had your lips.
I would risk a few splinters
if it had your thrust.
I would cut it down
and set it alight
just to feel your fire
next to me.
Is that love
I ask thee.

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.