Trust, Spelled Slowly

by The Night Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Tell me the difficult part before it grows. Return when the first answer was not enough. Use my name without using it against me. Say what changed, and say what did not. Take time; certainty is not the price of care. Keep the promise small enough to practice. Every honest repair begins after the damage. Together is a verb we choose again.
62 words · 8 lines · Acrostic
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