Author name: 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.

minor tweaks

With only a few minor tweaks
I could be a successful human being
Living next door to You
Washing my car every weekend

With only a few minor tweaks
Tinkering and rerouting the internals mainly
God’s light would shine upon me
Basking in their glory

With only a few minor tweaks
Take away the suppressants and inhibitors
Bouncing off the ceiling yet again
Chains of olden days – lost

With only a few minor tweaks
.We
..Might
…Become
….Friends
…..Again
……

The Fool

Who will grieve you

In foreign lands, scarred and burning

Who will grieve you

On Mother soil, scarred and hurting

Who will grieve you

Locked up, scarred and shivering

Who will grieve you

Hanging by your belt, scarred and fooled

Canon fodder on home soil – soon forgotten

Fisticuffs

My joys are
Gone; disappeared during a drunken
Fight; the Words challenged the Music to a
Fisticuff; poetry lost but the banging head
Sympathize; both gone; no heart for poetry
Remains; I read your words; nothingness
Bubbles; I hear your words; stillness
Rumble; my joys are
Gone

the voice in the mist

I think it might be for the best, my best that is, if I “pass” on this invitation to be “Only Friends” as you suggest. I wanted more but like most of my ideas they would eventually fall flat needless to say. I need a friend that does not make me feel bad about feeling bad, you do; at times at least, lack the gentleness of which I crave. You claim you want to support me, yet the hand you extend most times come swinging, leaving invisible bruises for me to tend at my leisure. As a parting thought you should know, you were the first Woman I have ever fallen for. For better or for worse, the path ahead unlit and shrouded in mist, like the storyline from a book, narrated with your precious voice.

In silence abiding

I would if I
…Could
Present to you my
…Words
Spoken in common tounge
…Accented
But discomfort, dislike and
…Hatred
I avoid my voice in
…Public
So silent I will
…Remain
My words a voice
….Deprived
My words in silence
Abide

Quicksand; an embrace

How do I take the next step?

Leave the shadows behind.

Embrace the light and love they say
awaits those who deserves it.

How do I take the next step?

When all I see is quicksand.

Sinking further down with every
Embrace that fails to reach
Me

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