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
Copyright © David Ellsworth | Year Posted 2012
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