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.

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long ago

I am not asking you to stay / you were never really here in the first place / I am asking you to consider / 8-bit graphics / the people you left behind / sprites and the patterns we saw / across a monochromatic screen / long ago

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Red Lines

I see her red lines,

In the mist before me,

I hear her red shoes,

Tap, tap, tapping away,

In the sea of concrete,

I see her sink,

Deeper, and deeper

still

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I am still here…

I am still here,

Though few seems to care,

I am still here,

Though I don’t really care,

I am still here,

Though I should,

I am still,

Though,

I

Prompted by an @imperialprompts prompt: I am still here…

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Grace of Beauty

I cover myself in

Christmas wrapping,

My skin a sacred

Hymn,

I kneel before the

Grace of Beauty,

I bow my head

In sin

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I grew up among the wood spirits,

In forests of majestic pines and fir,

I climbed the birch that broke my back,

mushrooms stopped the fall from killing

.

I whispered silent prayers in doubt,

to those I knew did not listen,

I ignored their obvious replies,

knowing best; as always

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There’s a haunted house

at the edge of a forest,

In my minds eye

I return there always,

Under pressure I fold

beneath stars of old,

Longing for the demons

to relinquish their hold

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Remembering B-Day

I will recall this day,

In a future; dark and broken,

How a knowledge so profound,

Ignored; as truth and lie

.

I will recall this day,

In a future; dark and broken,

Will anyone regret at all,

The future they abandoned

.

I will recall this day,

In a future;

dark and

broken

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Christmas well passed; I just today

wrapped the final parcel,

Next week if you’re lucky,

I will give; and tell rhymes,

in answer

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behind-the-veil-of-sanity-reblog:

dreams//drama//N.S.F.Reading

I will p1ss on your grave,

in homage to your infallible,

dried-out v@gina,

I will p1ss on your grave,

and stand there in the rain,

tap-dancing alone,

I will p1ss on your grave,

dreaming of that moment,

I saw you die

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