Giving New Life

Boxes and cupboards, closets and drawers I am retrieving everything from my past And freeing them to a world of usage Even old wine will be opened And that set of china too expensive to use Except on special occasions will be used again Because today is my special occasion Just as will be everyday in my new beginning Those rose-shaped candles will become Puddles of wax and the silverware Brought out only to laboriously clean Will be used on hotcakes and omelets I will resurrect all the things that were preserved Bottles of cologne and after shave From Christmases long past will find the bathroom shelf Where they will be used until exhausted What has passed the fashion or current vogue Will be given to the poor and photos Once too painful to see will find walls to live upon And jigsaw puzzles will be joined into their rightful image And old records played with a tinny remembrance As I bring life again to my somber world of aloneness Where memories thrive without validation And need the reference of old things long forgotten