Poetry Drafts / 4 March 2017

The Fool

Who will grieve you

In foreign lands, scarred and burning

Who will grieve you

On Mother soil, scarred and hurting

Who will grieve you

Locked up, scarred and shivering

Who will grieve you

Hanging by your belt, scarred and fooled

Canon fodder on home soil – soon forgotten

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.