Poetry Drafts / 13 September 2016

You need to eat more poetry

uncooked, the virgin shape

sustenance for

wandering souls

hiding in shadows

cast by the moon

void the light

darkness crave

a sacrificing hand

each page

as the moon needs

crying eyes

to wax

the poet

setting words

alight

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.