MTB letter in a poem. For dVerse Poets Pub
In response to dVerse Poets Pub:
https://dversepoets.com/2026/04/02/mtb-letters-in-a-poem/
I don’t knoww here this reaches you now—
but I write it anyway.
Not for answers,but because silence has been filled with too many versions of you that do not feel true.
They speak in headlines,in fragments,in stories that close too quickly.
But you—you were never something to be finished that way.
There are still questions standing in the room. Still echoes that don’t settle.
And some of us have chosen not to look away.
Not because we cannot let go, but because something in us recognizes the difference between grief and unfinished truth.
Evidence matters. Even when it is delayed. Even when it is inconvenient. Even when silence tries to carry the weight instead.
I don’t claim to know everything. Only this:
you mattered—beyond the noise,beyond the narrative that tries to make it simple.
And where something feels hidden,or rushed,or quietly set aside—
we will keep asking.
Not loudly,not blindly—
but steadily.
Because truth does not disappear just because it is delayed.
Evidence matters.
Wherever you are—I hope you know you are not only remembered.
You are being stood for and so loved.
— Maggie
The Afterlove Voice 💫
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