For the person whose world just heaved and who cannot tell the ruined room from the whole building. Fear makes change feel like total loss. Some foundations are still standing.
When You Are Still Trying to Be Good Enough
For the person still trying to become worth the care. He lived with us a year. Fifteen years later I still care. The sparrows were already counted. The grade was never on the scale.
Afraid of the Apartment
For the person standing at the edge of a better life that does not feel like home. Unfamiliar is not the same as worse. The old map will call the good thing a threat.
