One Chair with Flowers

by The Quiet Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

At the end of the wedding aisle, one chair holds flowers instead of a body. We do not ask the chair to become a person. We do not turn the vows into another funeral. Before the music begins, the couple touches the ribbon, says the missing name together, and lets joy enter without requiring grief to leave.
57 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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