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Poetry Drafts / 19 April 2018

You stand there, naked

words seeping through

the cracks.

I approach as you rapture

the fractures widen, the

words bombastic and

your smile emphatic.

You stand there, naked

words seeping through

the cracks.

I turn my back

with heart bleeding

I turn my back

with doubts

returning

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.