bibelot

Clear the Clutter & Free Yourself!
...so the magazine says,
and I imagine being free
in a moment of castle cloud bliss
until... then the truth arrives
as I sit and sort my stuff
piles of bibelot and bric-a-brac
that raise old ghosts or take me back
to the times that made or broke me 
to the ones loved and ones lost
and the ones loved and lost
and the roads traversed and the rivers crossed
and I remember the things I most often forget
and resolve to be better, have less to regret
the mementos cling to me with a magnetic pull
and the garbage bag stays empty...
and my shelves stay full