slg+if+I+were+to+fold

A line from the poem that caught my eye was, "If you were to leave me, if I were to fold only my own clothes." This concept means that if the one she loves leaves her and there's only her laundry left it's just not enough anymore. If it's only her that's holding on then their relationship is over and the desperate need to not just fold her clothes but his as well, and the wish to keep him in her life overcomes her body and heart. Folding laundry is her way of shutting down her emotions and hiding them at the bottom of the basket and suffocating these feelings and memories by piling the laundry high.