Poetry Drafts / 11 October 2016

I hope

With age comes loss

I don’t remember when

I stopped growing

stopped changing

Seeing children growing up

Taller and fatter as

the years piles on

I remain twenty-five and

a summer short

of finding love

I hope

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.