Poetry Drafts / 14 January 2021

Miss Nearly

I would have kept you close
Had you chosen the path of words
Atop a river
Bleeding

I would have kept you closer
Had you chosen anything but
Hiding the bottle beneath
Your pillow

I would have kept you
Your dreams
Desires spreading
Like lice – curling

I would have
Kept
You –

Near

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.