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.

creaking in a blessed night,
wickerwork and cold shower
taps; they made another,
an other spawned from darkness
of night โ€“ and of minds
creaking.

incomprehensible: her words of love
and loving and living in a moment,
he found in there no understanding
of the magic they shared; words
so eloquently painted
on a canvas of divinity, of light
where he could only see a moment
fleeting, a lover fleeing and in love
the ultimate betrayal.

no one shares him, no one will
carry forth his stories: the facets
of an unpolished rock
slowly disappearing
slowly becoming
a desert devoid of mirages.

Bad Robot

I blame bad programming,
the programmers themselves
badly programmed
by bad programmers;

I blame bad programming,
the operating system unchosen
and low-level language used
by those inherited classes โ€“ fools;

I blame bad programmers,
the parental trap of tinkering,
the unspoken words, the hereditary
misgivings and an environment
unfit for purpose.

No Stranger

My future is no stranger,
it is the mirrorless face
of sameness, sadness
dancing between blackened trees
burnt to the ground by passions
for someone, something
now eluding me.

My future is no stranger,
Hello Faceless Demon! I see your bet
and I raise you all I possess
to race you till the end
of time, searching for other kind
of mirror.

My future is no stranger,
it was that which always was
and always will be seen
in the cause without effect,
in the mirror sighing.

Friends Lost

Friends lost too early,
untimely demised from the long road,
lost meandering the land of Madness.

Tick โ€“ tock.

From mizzle to drizzle
to the tempest of mind,
they found no kind of peace,
no patience for the patient.

Tick โ€“ tock.

Friends lost too early,
too many too soon
to a Madness that roams
my mind, as they carry on living.

All fuses blown
All energy expended
All I see in every corner are shadows,
scythes โ€ฆ
and a boy of eleven waving?

The Curse of the Sphinx

Their imposed truths will fade,
crumble like the pillars of men
afraid of the curse of the sphinx;
no answers will come
no answers to fill the void
of knowing that all is wrong,
that all truths are false
that turning left and left
never becomes a right
never becomes a life;
She will allow no answers
to become normative
to become prevalent;
the truths needs exposure
as the lies they are,
as the fading light shows
those perceptive.

My life is mirrorless, unsearchable dust, and lust; longing for a face, cleanliness, and thorns hovering above.

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