House Elves – Day Two

Have you heard those little feet

Out and about in your home?

Unstable legs that easirly give way

Slipping sideways with arms all full?

Every place I’ve lived has had a few, at least.

 

Every day I watch them scurry about,

Little people with only stocking on.

Various years and different homes

Even staying in a few two room places.

Still those little elves will come and tidy up my spaces.

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Written for the second day of NaPoWriMo: http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/day-two/http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/day-two/

Whenever I look up old stories about house elves, elves that sneak into your house at night and clean things (not the ones in the Harry Potter books, though, no slavery) the cleaners remind me of when I was little and my siblings and I were in charge of the housework. Later, my sister’s kids took over housework when they were old enough to help. (The age gap between me and my eldest niece and nephews is about the same between my eldest sibling and my youngest sibling; so I was still barely a teenager when my sister had her kids.)

Of course unlike the story, if you give these little elves clothing they won’t stop cleaning. They will stop cleaning if you give them too much sugar. House Elves aren’t very focused when under the influence of too much sugar.