Thank You for the Ordinary

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Thank you for arriving without waiting to be asked. For soup in the wrong container. For the lift home. For remembering the appointment I wanted everyone to forget. For jokes that did not fix the week but helped the evening pass. For telling me the truth gently, and the difficult truth plainly. Family, friend, chosen family— the name matters less tonight than the chair you pulled beside mine.
68 words · 13 lines · Free Verse
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