Argument and Uncertainty

You call it cleaning and ordering
but really you're thinking of what 
you'll leave when you go, and who 
will get this lifetime of collected 
items. They're only things, they're only
clothes or cookery says the youngest
who is either practical or cynical or both. 
But I don't know how to wear these, 
says the oldest; you're more confident 
than me. Why do you talk like that, says
another. Take them out and start using 
them—maybe there's no best yet to come, 
maybe this is it: drink a little wine, eat bread
or a sweet. Love whatever it is that's still here.