Poetry Drafts / 29 July 2017

nocturnal feast

Without doubting myself

excessively; nor prematurely

I can sense the grim reaper

approaching.

Shall I lock the keep

bar all entrances

or invite him in to

the nocturnal feast.

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.