Poetry Drafts / 9 February 2018

the silver lining

I saw a silver lining once,

blowing in the wind by chance,

tossed or otherwise discarded

by one who no longer believed;

behind every cloud a sun,

beneath the tears an honest smile,

between the fading thoughts of life

a new year to bring change;

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.