Poetry Drafts / 20 July 2016

Capitulate

I tried

I really did

Three months

Daily

Not just nine to five

I did

More than was asked of me

But now the patience

Has run dry

There is Darkness is my heart

The fire extinguished

I’m flat

I give up

I resign

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Prompted by a @thatrandomprompt prompt: capitulate

(I just wished this was fiction)

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.