Old People's Home

By Mrs E Hedley - 18/12/2007

In an old peoples’ home
There are treasures galore,
Beloved by their owners
Who keep them in store.

Old letters written
By the writers now dead,
Books cherished in childhood
Though now seldom read.

Bits of cracked china
More precious than gold
Photos depicting
The young grown old.

A useless collection
Of rubbish you say
But we haven’t the heart
To throw them away.

Mrs E Hedley, Parkstone, Dorset