© K.J. Petrie 2003. The right of K.J. Petrie to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sections 77 and 78.
Let me help you clear out the wood shed,
Clear it out so you can close the door,
Turn it out and turn into a good shed
From which to look and love what you adore.
I cannot know the nastiness which nests there,
The viper’s brood which hatched there long ago,
The paralysing palsies, plagues and pests there,
The terrors it’s unthinkable to show.
Yet I know well the sickness which despises
Self, control, control of self alike,
Disease which dare not speak, nor analyses
The need either to pacify or strike,
And I know too of horrors in the wood shed,
And you can clean them out and, by and by,
In cleaning out, you’ll find it is a good shed,
And I would help, if you would help me try.