Group Chat at Midnight
Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
The group chat should be asleep.
Instead, one friend posts a question
that begins with honestly.
Three typing bubbles appear.
One disappears.
A joke arrives first,
then the answer beneath it.
No one has perfect advice.
They stay until the screen dims,
sharing songs,
wrong spellings,
and the small blue proof
that somebody is still awake.
56 words · 13 lines · Free Verse