SPRING CLEANING TIME
I have been cleaning cupboards
and with neat housewifely art;
I have set things all in order
in the storehouse of my heart.
There are things I always meant
to save and look at everyday,
And then again, a lot of things
I should have thrown away.
There were things in wild
disorder, and mixed among the lot,
Were bitter things, and ugly ones
that should have been forgot.
But there are scraps of tender
dreams- a child’s remembered kiss.
And a poem that my mother wrote;
ah,how I treasured this.
I discovered tho’, that ugly things
were taking too much space
Sometimes for new and lovely ones,
I couldn’t find a place !
And so I’ve tossed the dark things out;
the sullen scraps and tatters,
Of old time hurts and fancied wrongs
and here’s what really matters.
Now that I’ve tossed the dark things
out…each cringing one I found,
The others shine a brighter shade
of radiance all around !
My cleaning work is nearly done,
and I suggest you start,
For you’ll find it’s mighty nice to
have clean cupboards in your heart !
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