Poetry Drafts / 3 May 2017

ex.per.i.ment

I’m experimenting
with life, or rather,
with being alive.
Not quite sure which
part will stick and
which witch will
light the candles.
The bonfire night
a long way away
yet I long for fire
the burning of
desire; inside

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.