Clothes In a Wardrobe

Clothes in a wardrobe still so neat Your favourite fragrance makes it so complete A task set without choice for me To sort your things not so easily The jacket you wore for colder times And the hat for your head for sunnier climes Are all hanging in their place Ready for you to wear for your worldly face I open the drawers in your bedside chest Where there are things you treasured best Here’s your watch still ticking away And pictures of us on Christmas Day I pack them up or give them away Mementos of the life you left today Each one a memory of you A smile for you now to remember too. © Paul Warren Poetry