Poetry Drafts / 15 May 2016

THE MIRROR

I close my eyes and

picture myself,

when I open them

a stranger is looking

back at me.

Who am I,

really?

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.