Sunday, 2 November 2025

Veil

The sun has cast its gloom upon my face

Shrouded in net at which my heart does pace

And the cloth with one eye gleaming outward

Like a leaf covering my mortality,

Half a lip showing, nostrils bellowing under the fabric

Shadows the clean expanse of cutis,

Smooth, sweaty, with a twirl here, a curl there

And I hide not my shame,

Or my glory nor my fame

But my story,

Silenced by the shadows of the night,

Becoming more me,

Bashful and demure.

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