The Empty Room Chooses a Purpose

by The Bright Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

We called it the spare room, as if space were waiting for instructions. First it held boxes. Then a desk. Then one sick friend who needed somewhere quiet. A room becomes itself not when furniture arrives, but when someone is allowed to need it.
44 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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