The Bottom Drawer

My mind is like a giant dresser
  with thoughts and feelings stored 

Some are for later and some for now
  each in its own drawer 

New thoughts are folded flat and crisp
  but new feelings loosely thrown 

In the bottom drawer to lie together
  —time there long outgrown 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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