Poetry Drafts / 22 August 2016

thirst

There is thirst
lingering thirst
knocking on the door thirst
waking you in the middle of night thirst
and then there’s
fcuk I need to drink that bottle of wine out of a pint glass thirst

not

wait

that

long

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.