Free Verse · Kindness
Happy Debts
Some debts are happy ones.
What you did —
the showing up, the staying late,
the asking twice —
I won't be paying it back.
I'll be paying it forward,
which is, I think,
how kindness planned it all along.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“Happy Debts” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/happy-debts
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