A Wet Sponge Poem by Marilyn Lott

I was cleaning with a wet sponge
Why, it was just the other day
And as I captured a swipe of dust
My thoughts just seemed to stray

If we can take a wet sponge
And wipe away dust and dirt
Then why can’t we do the same
To wipe away the endless hurt?

I’ve noticed through my life
As I’ve stumbled along the way
Decisions are so difficult
Sometimes more than I can say

We all make mistakes of course
But what if we could just erase
With a single wet sponge and swipe
And there would not be a single trace

Of course we can’t really do it
But we can within our minds
If the things that trouble us so much
The things that stifle us and binds

Why can’t we mentally just swipe it
With the wet sponge inside our mind
For we then can move right along
So happiness is much easier to find!