2022-2023, Poem, Writing

The List

The List
Nicole Chen, '26

I’ve grown
To call it
The List

Simply because
That’s all
It is

Although
It barely counts
As a list

But
The List
Has three things

Although it really
Is just
Three names

M_______
A___
R______

The three names of
The three reasons
I’m alive

The three reasons
I force myself
Out of bed

And sometimes
The list becomes
One or two

But
Nonetheless
The List

A list of people
I would do
Anything for

And though I doubt
I am on their lists
They are on mine

Maybe they know
I am talking to them
Or maybe they don’t

But
If they know
I want to say

Thank you
For being
Such wonderful friends

Thank you
For letting me
Be enough

And even if
You aren’t on
The List

I still want to say
Thank you
For everything