Poetry Drafts / 8 January 2020

the specifics

I have forgotten the specifics
why I no longer saw you fit,
fit to be the mother of my children &
my wife in the eyes of the church

I have forgotten the specifics
why I no longer trusted your sight,
the insight into finding value in the
meager and the bleak of night

I have forgotten the specifics
why and to whom concerned,
concerning the bereaved as much as
the dead now adjourned

I have forgotten the specifics
of all which came to pass,
this night now almost beyond us &
and the dread from which we run

I have forgotten the specifics
of why I cannot be,
if becoming was the purpose
I have failed -- spectacularly

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.