Poetic Bloomings Vacation Poem

It Would Have Been a Vacation

It would have been a vacation.
Packed bags, airplane flight, eating out,
staying at a hotel, shopping,
and getting away from it all.

Seeing old friends, meeting new ones.
It would have been a vacation.
Family sharing memories,
looking over old photographs.

Lots of hugs, eating, listening.
Together, working toward a goal.
It would have been a vacation,
but there was one person missing.

We helped bear the weight of her grief,
which cruelly threatened to crush her.
If the warehouse hadn’t fallen,
it would have been a vacation.