Free Verse · Life
What You Built
The job gets a replacement;
the work, though — the work was never
the spreadsheets or the shifts.
It was the steadiness people set their clocks by,
the new hires you turned into colleagues,
the thousand small rescues nobody logged.
That doesn't retire.
That walks out the door with you,
wearing your name.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“What You Built” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/the-work-walks-with-you
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