Poetry Drafts / 4 June 2019

allergic to words

allergic to words
written in anger / written in pain
allergic to words I am
:
allergic to my words
allergic to my words
allergic to my words
:
allergic at the sight of them
allergic by the smell of them
allergic to the shape of them
allergic to their … absence

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.