Short Stories

1. Thank You, Really (Poem)

19 Sep 2021

A/N: The prompt was: "Write a poem on your favorite person or place." But I wrote a 'thank you' poem instead. Ah well, enjoy! :)

19 Sep 2021

When I came

I wasn't expecting an invitation

To enter

This world

I came as a visitor

Neither a friend

Nor a guest

I didn't expect

That one day

I'd find thy words

To fill me

With felix

Like a jar

With honey

And love of a

friend filled to the brim

You helped with affection

I knew not 

Strangers carried within

Their hearts

You made it for those 

Invisible

To the eyes of all but

You

You made it for those 

You knew not

And yet

Knew

To be those who carried within

The flames of the pen

Mightier than a sword

Weaker than gen

For those constrained

by the divine

Who were fine

And yet declined

To let the fire flourish

By using others' fuel.

We only wished to

Save our own.

"Fine" we said.

We will use ours.

Just let us strive

Once, using theirs.

You did it 

for us.

For us, who were fearful

But not cowards

For us who did naught for you

But you returned nevertheless

You didn't have to.

But you did

You believed

in our flare

You believed not  

In what we can or cannot do

But

In what we will or will not do

You believed

You alone believed

And we will pass it to the next.

We will APMA.

We will.