Poetry Drafts / 20 August 2017

I fathom not

Oh Hellas, the face I see before me

such beauty,

its simplicity evoking my darkest fears

though humbling as it be

I fathom not how I can proceed

to meet the morning

without her

near

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.