Poetry Drafts / 18 November 2016

ego sum, sed non requiescent

I admit I sometimes sleep

it helps to keep the mice at bay

They crawl inside my veins most days

the shaking never stops

I try and drown them one by one

breathless whimpers in my mind

Mindless racing

Thoughts alight

another sleepless night

awaits

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.