Poetry Drafts / 26 June 2019

through the valleys

I learned many years ago, the name of
police - in Welsh, and walking ‘cross the
mountains, through the valleys; through
and though, I found a better way.

What at first appeared as mere fiction
she taught me was the ways of old, and
I having no better clue; I went with it --

Oh the fool

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.