I have taken my dog for a walk most nights for the past 8 years. For the first 6 years, I would pass my elderly neighbor walking their old lab. She passed away, but he still walks every night, on his own, and we still pass him. Mortality is a sad thing.

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Pause. Read. Feel. 🌸
That’s all a haiku needs — what did this one awaken in you?
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Sometimes silence says what words cannot. 🌸
Comment with what silence means to you.
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You already know how this ends before your hand does. It keeps going a few windows past the point where there's nothing left to wave at, because stopping first would feel like a confession.

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