Lyric Poem · Inspirational
The Tassel
It's just a string, the tassel is,
a finger's worth of thread —
but look what it took to move it
from the right side to the left:
ten thousand cups of coffee,
a hundred midnight doubts,
and you, still here, still standing,
as the caps come raining down.
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“The Tassel” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/the-tassel
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