Poetry Drafts / 20 March 2018

13 reasons why

you did not ask why / I tell you anyway / it was cowardice perhaps / fear driven stumbles through the mists of vanity / you show yourself always / inside and out / I hide and never like / your external images / forgiveness is optional / I care neither way / your beauty persists / my certainty prevail

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.