slg+the+empty+side+of+the+bed.

When her lover once and for all leaves and its just her there's no way to avoid the fact that no matter how much laundry is piled up no matter how much baggage is left over from the relationship, trying to think about something else won't fill the empty side of the bed. "A mountain of unsorted wash could not fill the empty side of the bed." In other words nothing can bring back someone who quite possibly could be the love of her life. This is a very dark, lonely and depressing concept. Once she realizes what she has lost, this laundry that is being piled up, the feelings that were left behind sink in but there is no hope for them to expand and have her love come back. "Folding clothes, I think of folding you into my life." Oddly enough this is the first line of the poem and the previous line was the last in the poem. This line has close to the same meaning as the other. She's folding her feelings away when all she wants is to keep him, whoever him is, in her life. Some things in life are unfair and overall I believe Elisavietta Ritchie is trying to show the unfair reality of the effects of love and what love can do to you.