2022-2023, Poem

The List

Featured in the 2023 Winter Issue of Rambunctious

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