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.

Scars

You call them tattoos
the reflections of a life
lived inside out – spinning

the last air bubble of a
man swimming with pockets
full of rocks, the faded photo
of love imagined – lost

I only see scars

Vibrating Brownies at dawn

Would you love me less
Were I not a daughter
of Satan
The cloven hof
Giving everything you
Desire
The Extacy of
Snake pits and Vibrating
Brownies at dawn
Would you love me less
If I let you
Bleed out

withdrawal, agony, shame

Withdrawing from you
tumbling towards the void
stumbling on unlaced shoes
pain ^ 2 I scream
ย 
the hardest drug
today of days
further farther
stumbling on

1.6.8 days WITH
counting the days WITHOUT
the u in you
passing through Middleton

Withdrawal
Withdrawal
Withdrawal
Sucks.

I Lost

I wanted more

you did not

than friendship

follow heart

my feelings obvious

instead followed

for long lasting

advising โ€œfriendโ€

relationship

it wonโ€™t last

and love

ignore him

I lost

whistle whistle

4711 the number of
the beast
we were the kings of
the command line
the breakers
the crackers
the phreakers
ruled
the net was young
the rules none
whistle whistle
CONNECTED 2400
midnight sessions of
CGA YELLOW TINTED EYES
The Humble Guys *
Razor 1911 *
ATH and then
some sleep before
starting again

moment of truth

That sound you hear

is not a sizzler

arriving

it is I

standing right behind you

smoking a stick

of dynamite

awaiting the

mind blowing

moment of

truth

the doomsday bell

I find myself again
struggling to comprehend
decisions made
truths never spoken
the life clock is closing in
nearing three minutes before
a new day begins
the doomsday bell is
calling me
I insist I am
innocent
the blood you see
is mine
I stand by the chosen path
though lonely roads await
my feet afirmly planted
on soils of old
albeit cold
I find a way
to manage

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