Poetry Drafts / 10 April 2020

the silence

There is no protection
Against the silence,
The words desperately
Wanted; the never spoken
Neither lovingly nor in
Anger. The silence
A dagger even blunt
Turns the kindest of souls

Into murderers

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.