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.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“We Came for Cake” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/we-came-for-cake
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