What We Did Not Become

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

The reunion badges show our names, not the futures we predicted. The future doctor teaches music. The shy student runs meetings. The fastest runner uses a cane and still arrives first with the joke. We stop comparing after dessert. Someone moves the chairs into a circle. For an hour, we are not accomplishments. We are witnesses who remember one another unfinished.
61 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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