Poetry Drafts / 1 January 2017

humming

pleasing for the sake of
pleasure, raping for the sake of
rapture, the innocence bleeding
dry while we stand aside –
humming

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.