a poem titled “me, care of you”, written by Jade A., also known as wheatfieldspoet. the poem reads: “they say it happens when you least expect it. too long did i wait for the magic of puppy love, aging out of television scenes and cafeteria chats. those stories had me peeking at every corner. all this time, and you turn up just around one. before the degrees that separated us intersected, ghost after ghost nearly scared away my hope. but now i see you, apparition, next to me; a granted prayer from the corner of my dreams a manifestation of what i wished love could be. i had wondered if my years of unrelenting hopes had backed me into an impossible corner. the first time i sat in your car was a revelation. maybe i predicted you, my playlists psychic, my poems and scripts casually prophetic. in the past, i chased after the passive, my hopeful heart ignoring their full stops and instead imagining question marks. you shake me out of my old patterns; your exclamation points pierce my doubt. i’ve been careful yet hurt anyway, miscalculating leaps of misplaced faith. with you, i want to take the risk of falling knowing now that i’ll land as soft as breath in the space between laughter and kisses.”
day 30 prompt: “around the corner” from poetry orchard & the adventurer’s writing guild
aaand here’s day 30! this one’s a bit of a companion piece to day 29, mainly because it’s the same thread (but much shorter) & for/about the same person. the prompt here is “around the corner” by @poetryorchard.bsky.social
now FINALLY done with #napowrimo2025! yay! thank you for reading! #poetry
