Activities Desk

Original

Red and blue uniform

Still and Unyielding,

supervising  The cabinet.

One item, missing

unreturned, waiting

for it's rightful place.

Constantly lingering

in the back of the mind

the burden,

that must be returned

Gone for days,

passed around,

and what if 

it remains unreturned?

Broken

Red/Blue-uniform

Still/Unyielding,

Supervising-The cabinet.

One/item-missing

unreturned/waiting

for its/rightful/place.

Constantly/lingering

in the back/of/the/mind

the burden

that must/be/returned

Gone for days-

passed around.

What//if

unreturned-

During my vacation in Cancun I constantly found myself forgetting to return a plastic ball I borrowed from the hotel's activities desk. I would usually remember after they had closed, and I distinctly remember the desk had a human sized statue of spiderman next to it, almost like it was looking over the remaining items. Still, much like how Rosal states that "A poet makes use of what’s ruined, discarded, or forgotten", my cousin and I would play volleyball with the ball after dinner, creating new games each day and forcing the adults to play with us. It soon became an inside joke, and a reference we would use whenever we had forgotten or messed up on something else. I ended up never returning it and she had to return it for me after I left. I guess you never know what new memories can be made from such a simple mistake.