Poetry Drafts / 10 September 2017

such pain

I never google people
not interested in
their pasts,
I broke that rule
to find a friend
only to be told;
he passed away,
I never google people
never will again
I rather live
ignorant
than suffer
such pain

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.