There are skeletons in my closet <br />And they're scratching at the door <br />They want to come and play with me <br />Just like they have before <br /> <br />I open the door and say to them <br />In no uncertain terms <br />'I want you to go live somewhere else <br />You're keeping me awake'! <br /> <br />They look at me bewildered <br />With their sunken socket eyes <br />And then I see their mood brightens <br />With their fiendish toothless grins <br /> <br />'We cannot relocate, my dear <br />We are yours and yours alone' <br /> <br />'But surely there must be skeletons <br />In other people's homes? ' <br /> <br />'Just think what might have happened <br />If we no longer stayed...' <br /> <br />'Oh I do...I so often do... <br />I wish that you would just go away! ' <br /> <br />'But my dear', they say with sorrow <br />'If we no longer remained <br />Then you might have soon forgotten <br />Along the path of life you came' <br /> <br />'And without us to remind you <br />Of mistakes along the way <br />You might have ventured off your course <br />And wound up in dismay' <br /> <br />'Without us to remind you dear <br />I'm sure that you can see <br />That you may have taken <br />More wrong turns <br />And ended up like me' <br />'Or me'! <br />'Or me'! <br />'Or me'! <br /> <br />I pondered what they had said to me <br />As I gently shut the door <br />Perhaps they had a point... <br />For each skeleton in my closet <br />Was a mistake I no longer make... <br /> <br />I agreed to let them stay with me <br />If they would grant me peace <br />And stop that infernal racket <br />And let me get some sleep. <br /> <br />Dee Daffodil (H.W) Nov 03/06<br /><br />Dee Daffodil<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-skeletons-in-my-closet/
