Poetry Drafts / 28 June 2022

The Shadow of the Tail

Away – my only direction is away,
far far away
from this, from now,
from everything before the next
fall, the next rise to pursue
the shadow of the tail, to get away
from a self – in constant pursuit.

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.