Poetry Drafts / 4 May 2017

Run fat boy, run

Weakest of the thirteen

Not even the crash bungs

Could keep him safe

Forcing the knee down

Scratching the pad

Until the rubber let go

He flew

Before gravity took hold

and mother’s embrace

became

final

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.