There must be a hidden room Somewhere in my house thats full of all the stuff I've lost (I think twas stolen by a mouse)
I bet he goes to sleep at night on a bed made of odd socks and wakes up to a wind charm made from keys and old padlocks
In the corner nickels and dimes are all neatly arranged and that Canadian Tire money I never got to exchange
The charger for my cellphone prob'ly makes a decent chair and my old shaving mirror gets used when he does his hair
Scraps of paper line his walls with shopping lists and names and numbers now forgotten yet its me who gets the blame
So all this stuff that I once had but can no longer find will no doubt become mine again when he's gone and its left behind
ŠA Thomas Hawkins 2010 http://poetryinprogress.com
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