Poetry Drafts / 21 December 2020

Fading Feline

The Lady in White

bleeding gums and scissors
a handshake that never was

I LOVE YOU I sighed through rotting teeth

I kissed you goodnight as prayers echoed
through the graveyard of infinity

The Lady in White
my mistress in birth & shiverings

faded

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.