Poetry Drafts / 22 September 2020

Nevermore

It doesn’t matter



It doesn’t matter



I let the smoke seep into all that
remained,
into the dry
dreams of
death



I let the smoke fill me
& from there
I took the stairs



to Nevermore

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.