Poetry Drafts / 19 September 2016

moment of truth

That sound you hear

is not a sizzler

arriving

it is I

standing right behind you

smoking a stick

of dynamite

awaiting the

mind blowing

moment of

truth

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.