Friday October 25, 2019
10:04pm
5 minutes
Choosing Happiness
Veronica Ray
the weird thing was we were all saying it just at different volumes
when dad tried to make us keep our doors open he didn’t really know why and he didn’t know how to tell us that so he stood his ground
unfair it’s unfair but it would not get brought up at the dinner tribunal
no one said it then or ever or louder than a whisper because it was all still in beta: what might happen if we disrespected any of them,
even unintentionally
better than what they got we were told, and sure, it was, and sure, they learned, but we had so many questions answered with “because I said so” it stopped making sense when you heard it
and “why” felt like the emptiest hug, the most out there on a limb next to I love you
that whispered around our family too but at least we fixed that one when it counted most