Random Unsorted Drafts / 31 March 2019

turn me on

I did not mind you forgetting my 40th,

You were busy making a “new life”,

I never minded the one you presented,

Years earlier; I recall our hotel room,

You asked why I hadn’t come,

I blamed the pills; but looking back,

Maybe you didn’t get me,

Maybe you didn’t; turn me on

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.