'I never knew you were a Quaker.' Photo: The Chelsea Meeting, Nelson Dawson, 1891.

Poem by RV Bailey

Poem: Friend

Poem by RV Bailey

by RV Bailey 11th September 2020

I never knew you were a Quaker.
I might have guessed.

A silence in the midst of argument;
A pause for thought.

A sense that something else was going on
Quietly, all the time.