These days, with duty, sure are rife,
It goes along with living life.
The chores that make our happy home
A somewhat clean and safe biome,
Now, mostly, they don’t bother me.
They satisfy my need, you see,
To have things neat and organized,
And make the house feel harmonized!
But though my house is ‘mostly’ clean,
Before I (in your praises), preen,
I have one chore that I admit,
Perturbs me just a little bit.
And this is it, I will confess:
I clean the floors under duress,
It’s true, you heard it here, from me,
My floors aren’t what they’re s’posed to be,
Okay, they’re ‘clean’, I would suppose,
No clutter, trash, no dirty clothes,
But cleaning as I did in youth?
It’s really hard, and that’s the truth!
Please understand my sad dismay,
I guess it’s not the ‘chore’ each day,
That fills me with so much concern,
And makes me for my freedom yearn . . .
Each day to get to bended knee,
The further the floors are from me.
Thank you for this apt poem. Oh yes, the floor is receding. I thought I was the only one noticing. It escalated when I got new glasses with progressive reading zones in the lower half.
ReplyDeleteAmazing the different worlds our glasses disclose. I’m thinking I want a pair of the rose-coloured ones everyone keeps talking about ! ;)
DeleteI have someone come in to clean my house, but with covid . . . let's just say when left to my own devices I'm more neat than clean.
ReplyDeleteMe, too! Sigh.
DeleteLoved this, especially the word 'biome!' I can so relate. Maybe it's the need for control in this crazy world, but have to have a clean house. Vacuuming and sweeping the kitchen floors? Alas, not so frequently.
ReplyDeleteOops.Maybe we shouldn’t become roommates, Laurie! ;)
DeleteI do love your mind. And your heart. But your MIND!
ReplyDeleteYou are so good for me, Carol! :)
DeleteThis was terrific! I read your comment on another site about a saying of your dad's about being weak and strong. I loved that! Can I use it with credit of course!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, Rena! I love it when people quote my dad! :)
DeleteThe floor gets harder to kneel on and it's harder getting up from it. I'm fortunate that my mother never made me scrub the floor the way my mother in law was made to by her mother. And I admit, I am a terrible housekeeper. I shudder to think what my biome is like.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! We're all our own worst judge!
DeleteFloors, especially vacuuming, are a pill, since someone is going to walk on them and dirty them again the next moment. Since i'm not performing surgery on them, a sweep and a mop and let's move on, shall we?
ReplyDeleteI like how you think, Mimi!
DeleteDiane and Mimi - your poems are great (again) and say so eloquently how I feel about cleaning. I tried several times to leave comments for both of you yesterday, but alas there seemed to be gremlins at work again. I hope you manage to pick up on this comment. Here's my poem:
ReplyDeleteWhat a bore
Such a chore
It just doesn’t thrill me at all
I’ll do all the washing, the ironing too
I’ll clean out the drains and I’ll scrub up the loo
I’ll bake you a pie or a cake
I’ll clean up the mess that you make
I’ll sweep all the floors and I’ll paint all the doors
But that kind of chore I’ll ignore!
So alas
Please don’t ask
Me to take on this horrible task
I’ll bring in the washing when it’s raining hard
I’ll cook and I’ll vac’ and I’ll muck out the yard
But please don’t expect me to mend
Anything broken or bent
Because I can’t do it, my fingers eschew it
That boring old chore I abhor!
Do not bring
Me a thing
That’s broken or run out of ‘bling’
I’d just bodge it and bash it until it looks sadder
And your persistence is making me madder
Just take it away I implore
Before I just throw out the door
That old broken thing and your glue and your string
‘Cos I won’t do that chore anymore!
Hahahaha! This is great! I have to admit, I'm not much of a 'fixer' either. (Sometime, I'll tell you about the toaster...) I leave that to Mr. Fix-It, my Husby!
DeleteOhh nice poem, well written, witty and even a bit of a cliff hanger. I wish you lived closer. I'm a take-it-apart-and-put-it-together-so-that-it-works again kind of person, and love to do it, whereas anything clothes-related from sorting (least bad) over hanging out (medium except in frost = worse) to buttonholes (worst). THedn we could help one another out :)
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