Quilts

　　by Nikki Giovanni

　　（for Sally Sellers）

　　Like a fading piece of cloth

　　I am a failure

　　No longer do I cover tables filled with food and laughter

　　My seams are frayed my hems falling my strength no longer able

　　To hold the hot and cold

　　I wish for those first days

　　When just woven I could keep water

　　From seeping through

　　Repelled stains with the tightness of my weave

　　Dazzled the sunlight with my Reflection

　　I grow old though pleased with my memories

　　The tasks I can no longer complete

　　Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past

　　I offer no apology only this plea：

　　When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end

　　Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt

　　That I might keep some child warm

　　And some old person with no one else to talk to

　　Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

　　Quilts

　　by Nikki Giovanni

　　（for Sally Sellers）

　　Like a fading piece of cloth

　　I am a failure

　　No longer do I cover tables filled with food and laughter

　　My seams are frayed my hems falling my strength no longer able

　　To hold the hot and cold

　　I wish for those first days

　　When just woven I could keep water

　　From seeping through

　　Repelled stains with the tightness of my weave

　　Dazzled the sunlight with my Reflection

　　I grow old though pleased with my memories

　　The tasks I can no longer complete

　　Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past

　　I offer no apology only this plea：

　　When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end

　　Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt

　　That I might keep some child warm

　　And some old person with no one else to talk to

　　Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

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