Poetry Drafts / 4 September 2016

swinging randomly

swinging both ways

I pass

urgent urgent

stay away

I approach

bat in hand

swinging randomly

the thief

the rapist

the power seeking

stretched prone along

the trail I’m leaving

behind

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.