Enough

This place isn’t perfect

but it is enough.

The garden is tiny and overgrown

but nearby there is a big park.

You can hear children playing

when you’re sitting in the back bedroom.

It isn’t perfect but it is enough.

The staircase is long and narrow

but it stops the cat escaping into the street.

Look at her there, soundly asleep

in her little cardboard box.

For her, it’s enough.

Not perfect, perhaps,

but enough.

Joshua Seigal