Poetry Drafts / 9 October 2016

Scars

You call them tattoos
the reflections of a life
lived inside out – spinning

the last air bubble of a
man swimming with pockets
full of rocks, the faded photo
of love imagined – lost

I only see scars

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.