Poetry Drafts / 17 September 2017

The 7th day

It was the quiet sigh,
God’s final whisper,
as her naked skin touched
the heavens
and the setting sun
parted
he knew
it was done – completed

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.