Free Verse · Hope
Until You're Well
While you mend,
the world has agreed to wait —
the jokes will keep,
the chairs will save your place,
and whatever the calendar claims,
nothing important is happening
anywhere
until you're well.
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“Until You're Well” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/until-youre-well
Quick facts
- Poem
- Until You're Well
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Hope, Kindness, Short
Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalUntil You're Well, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 37b922e117419c08…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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