Clean Up

In the basement down below

Old toys, old furniture and dust

In the darkness I will go

To search for you, I must

I buried you long time ago

Though you’ve been part of me

You didn’t take my “no”

You wouldn’t let me be

Where are you now, my dear?

I’m lifting pieces one by one

The dust of old time brings me fear

Things from which I used to run

I’m calling you - where are you now?

I’m bringing you into the light

I need to settle things somehow

I need to make things right

I have to see you once again

Though I wanted you away

I know I fought you then

I never wanted you to stay

And all this time ago

You were bestowed to me

You were my gift and so 

The thing that I could only be

A gift so ugly and insidious

That kept me wide awake

That made me mostly hideous 

That made me feel unwanted, fake

its time to clean this place

Get rid of all this mess

It’s time for me to face

My monster now I guess

Here you are so tiny!

So innocent, and almost cute

And now you are so whiny

You have been really good!

You have made no trouble

You haven’t done a thing

Just tell me all this rubble

And debris who did bring?

It’s time for you to go

I’m cleaning here today

The light it makes you glow

And you don’t have to stay

Go be a gift to someone else

You job is so done here

Broken is the spell

You’re ridiculous, you can’t be feared

And next time when you visit

You will be welcome for a bit

To just remind me, and revisit

The nasty things you did

I’ll clean the floors, the walls

immaculate my house would be

And all the corners of my soul

No rubble, monsters, there won’t be

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