New Clothes

Here’s a question – when you buy

An item of new clothes,

How long until you wear it?

Not too long, I would suppose.

 

Do you take the tags off quickly,

Sporting it next time you dress

Or does it go in the closet

With the wardrobe you possess?

 

Or perhaps it’s folded neatly,

Nestled in a chest of drawers,

Waiting with the others to be worn

Since now it’s rightly yours?

 

For some reason I can’t fathom,

Any new clothes that I buy

Have to wait before I wear them –

There’s no explanation why.

 

So they hang or lie there, marking time,

Until that special morn

When their tags are cut and they’re put on

To finally be worn.

 

My husband’s just the opposite.

When clothes come from the store,

He puts them on at once and then

He’s headed out the door.