Poetry Drafts / 27 August 2016

Coming

I take your “Coming Out” and raise you

“Not Coming For Years”

you poured cement into his shoes

welded his fly shut

turned your back and

walked off

laughing

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.