How Love Persists | Abraham Aondoana
After the argument
the house grows quiet.
Not the peaceful quiet--
the kind that sits heavily
on the furniture.
We move around each other
like cautious weather.
Yet morning still arrives.
You pour coffee.
I open the window.
The sparrows outside
argue loudly on the fence,
as if reminding us
how ordinary forgiveness is.
Later, you ask
if I slept well.
The question is small,
but it carries
a fragile bridge.
And somewhere inside it
love waits--
not grand,
not dramatic--
only stubborn enough
to stay.
Abraham Aondoana is a writer and poet. He is a recipient of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His poem was shortlisted for Interwoven Anthology 2025 (Renard Press). His works has appeared in Kalahari Review, San Pedro River Review, Mayari Literature, Zoetic Press, Temple in a City Journal, Underbelly Press, Flowers-of-the Field Journal, Genrepunk Magazine, Eye to the Telescope Journal of speculative poetry, and elsewhere.