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.

WITH EVERY MOMENT

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With Every Moment of
Dissatisfaction
Grasping My Throat
I Breathe a Little
Less Shallow.

With Every Moment of
Regret
the Calling is
Pulling Me Down
Alleys Anew

With Every Moment of
Rage and Hidden
Tears the Void of
Darkness Expands
Fills Like Liquid
Feels Like Death
Approaching

A TOWER CRUMBLING

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I will try to
Explain
Through metaphors
That building towers
Without
Solid foundations
And
A plan
While trying to find the
Purpose
Will take you far and
Away
Maybe youโ€™ll get to see
Stars and
Swim the diamond pool but
Eventually
The wind will rise
From the east and
Your tower will
Crumble – along with
Your Dreams

The curse

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In a time long
forgotten
I chose Love over
Friendship, and
thus
accepted a curse,
an unexpected prize,
to be revealed
at a point
much later in time
when the love
had died,
the sun in
hiding, I
found myself
alone

you planted daffodils

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You planted daffodils
in the pot, next to the
Conifer bush, now a
small tree by the by
But since you left
they have not bloomed
Year on year they
show signs of growing
the green stem showing
never quite exploding
into life

@fakesurprise wanted someone to think about daffodils

HARMONY

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Will you be the one
that adds the music to my lyrics,
sings my songs at night
in campfire light,
through star lit nights
together

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