Partner, Not Helper

by The Bright Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

I do not help you raise our family as if the work belonged to you. I pack the bag because it is ours. You make the call because you noticed first. We trade the midnight hallway. We both forget the spare socks. This Mother's Day, I love you beyond the card: by learning the calendar, by asking before the crisis, by being your partner, not your applause.
67 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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