That Sweater With My Burden

I've been working on this same sweater for 15 years now,
And it's still not finished,
When I started on it,
I picked out many brightly colored threads to make it with,
But over the years,
It seems as though the colors have faded into somthing dull,
And now it's just something old,
And I really haven't even messed with it since.

When I started making it,
I was as excited as could be,
I'd make small inperfections,
But they were fixed easily.

A few months went by,
And it kept getting harder and harder to continue on with it,
But I wanted to see how beautiful it would be when it was all done,
So I kept sowing those threads one by one.

A year goes by like that,
Just continuing on with it,
But during this time there were so many mistakes,
Places I had messed up so much I'd just have to redo the whole thing,
And I did over and over again,
After so much of this I didn't care anymore,
I just wanted to throw it away.

However, I put so much work into it,
I didn't have the heart to just throw it away,
So I threw it in the corner,
And that's where it stayed.

It laid there for two years,
I just ignored it everyday,
It wasn't something I'd wear anyways,
Even though it was not for me anymore.

Everyday was the same,
I did the same things I always had done,
And one day I saw that mangled, unfinished sweater,
Laying on the ground,
Should I try putting this back together again?
Maybe put some color into it?
Questions I asked since the colors faded from the past,
But I don't know if I can truely make that sweater,
I don't think I could ever finish it.

by aqua4ever
posted on 11/10/2009