Poetry Drafts / 22 January 2017

I shut you out

It’s not like I don’t wanna be friends like; it’s more like I know the shit that comes when letting people come too close to me. That shit is the source of all the other shit that follows. So I shut you out.

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.