Sometimes closets are for more than just clothes

Artist in Your Closet

There's a painter in your closet

Holding paintbrush tight;

You'd. better let him out

If you like your T-shirts white

There's a writer in your closet

And one day you'll see

A novel written on the walls

Behind the robe and dungarees

There's a singer in your closet

So open up the door

Or your guests may wonder

What that muffled sound is for.

There's a poet in your closet

Looking for a rhyme

You'd better let him out;

He'll have a better time.

There's a sculptor in your closet

Did you need that baseball bat?

He may carve it in a statue

And your baseball game go flat.

There's a dancer in your closet

With no room for twirls and jumps

And if he bangs another wall

He'll say, "Ouch!" from all the bumps.

There's a musician in your closest

And he's getting rather bored

Your shoestrings tied to hangers

Give him no good chords.

There's an actor in your closet

And he's costumed in your clothes

He's lacking in an audience

For whom to smile and pose

There's an artist in your closet

Open up, look in and see

Free him to make a better world

And life for you and me.

Poem "An Artist in your Closet" ©2001 Becky Mate