POEM STARTER

‘Leaving room for errors always seems wise, until there are mistakes sleeping on every sofa in your house.’

Write a poem that begins with this line.

Squatter's Rights

Leaving room for errors seems wise until there are mistakes sleeping on every sofa in your house warm and snuggled up, too comfortable, yet too heavy to push away you've let them enter and they are here to stay. at night they creep beside you in sleep and visit you in your dreams or pull your window curtains drawn to display a terribly disturbing scene day breaks; they've burrowed deep in your cushions by dawn (before you can stir awake to shoo them off once and for all)
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