A Soft Place to Lean

Two figures stitched from difference
one in wild pattern,
one in quiet blue
meet not in symmetry,
but in closeness.

Faces reduced to simple joy,
as if happiness
does not need detail
to be understood.

Between them, a language of touch
an arm around a shoulder,
a weight shared without asking,
a warmth that says:
stay here a little longer.

The world outside dissolves into white,
but here, in this small held moment,
color becomes connection,
and difference becomes
a kind of belonging.

Object number

088.052