Solomon's bedroom
Used to have a floor.
Sadly, those days are no more.
Would a service be right?
It put up a good fight.
It battled and fought,
But, sadly, for naught.
A headstone, perhaps,
To mark where it lay.
A testimony to
That one fateful day
When its battle was lost
When the war was done
When the floor was defeated
When the room
(And Solomon)
Won.
A sock was the first,
Probably the worst.
It came under cover of night.
It seemed a gentle soul;
In the heel was a hole
And its colour was yellow and bright.
But the floor wasn't fooled
It knew socks came in twos.
So it waited for this sock's mate,
But, by then, it was done
The war already won,
When it started it was already too late.
A book,
A pen,
That sock back again,
A T-shirt turned outside in.
Underwear everywhere
Thrown without a care,
And screwed up paper that just missed the bin.
Bunnies and bears
And big balls of fur
That squeaked when they were stood upon,
Shared spaces with bits
Of Potato Head faces
The head of which was long gone.
Bit by bit
The floor disappeared.
It slowly faded from sight,
Until, at last,
The point was passed
And it, finally,
Gave up the fight.
Forgotten now,
Hidden from view,
It's a vague memory,
If even that.
But it's not just the floor
That's disappearing anymore...
It's been a while since we've seen the cat...
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Zits'n'Bits
PoetryAn offbeat collection of poetry for children of all ages! Meet Mojo Jojo, Arnold Rimble and the spider on your ceiling! And watch out for the zits and farts along the way!