Free Verse · Inspirational
Commencement
They named it wrong on purpose:
commencement — a beginning,
held at the end of everything you've known —
because the people who built this word
knew a secret about doors:
every single one of them
is both.
Walk through.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“Commencement” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/every-door-is-both
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