Poetry Drafts / 21 March 2018

Black Ink

A beating heart

filled with black ink

enough to pen

ten thousand truths

trickling out from wounds

bleeding onto the pages

from one cut flows

ten thousand poems.

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.