Poetry Drafts / 23 July 2016

Open and shut case

I stuffed my belongings into into the suitcase

You were still asleep

Nicotine yellow fingers

Heart in overdrive fron latenight drinks

Your friend’s curly hair showing

I knew this was the end

But kept the ring just in case

I turned my back and left

The suitcase by my side

Wishing things

Would turn out

all right

By all

Prompted by a @maxmundan prompt: open and shut case

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.