Poem: Friend

Poem by RV Bailey

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

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.

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