Blue Tote

Lil blue tote you keep out in the hallway.
Adjacent from the entry to your bed where you nestle your lovers
Febreeze them with your smiles and finesse them with the little lies you tell so they give you what you fancy

Inside that little blue tote
Where you bury your past
Smothered with high school garb and photo album hall of famed girlfriends you still
fantasize of

Inside the blue tote
I guess I'd rather be there but I'm aloof
Not quite sure where I'm placed but I'd like to think the story of our lusts reside inside
Take me out and play with me
Put me back in
Maybe I am mistaken since you carefully place things there you place high value into or once did.

INside that blue tote
Where teen spirit still raves and the love that oozed from you is contained
I will never see why you keep the little blue tote
out in the hall if you so value all that is kept within
I guess I get it if you just want to keep the present in the present but still desire to  remind yourself you were once capable of  radiating love on a lover so lost hoping the blindfold doesn't reveal your amazingly gigantic appetite to sample all women in the cultural buffet

In that blue tote adjacent from your door way
You taught me that your past is never too far away.
You can and will put me inside until you feel like rummaging through it again
Until then
I am just a thing of the past
I see

Always thought I was so dear to your heart
Last time I was close enough to hear your heartbeat
Surprised
Outside that blue tote I felt so alive and for that moment you never felt as warm as you did that night

Inside that blue tote
Don't forget
cause I can't
It's dark
And we live in the dark
Where dancing in the dark is acceptable
Inside that little blue tote