Poetry Drafts / 19 July 2019

Catch

We were playing catch,

       catch the hand-granade

 I lost

         mine,

 I lost

       my mind,

 elaborating the finer

 points

           of

                blowing

                              up

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.