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Poetry Drafts / 15 April 2018

I am afraid

to read my runes of old

thoughts in another language

another lifetime’s truths told

I am afraid

to read the words of others

my world no longer pure; poisoned

to become a copycat; faking

I am afraid

I am

of that

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.