Free Verse · Love
We Came for Cake
We came for cake and dancing,
let's be honest —
but somewhere between the vows,
when your voices wobbled
on the same word,
all of us remembered
what we'd forgotten we believed in.
Thank you for that.
Now: cake.
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“We Came for Cake” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/we-came-for-cake
Quick facts
- Poem
- We Came for Cake
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 9 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Love, Funny
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 originalWe Came for Cake, 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 63d39d51b4e24057…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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