I am a doormat
Not especially decorative
Built to be functional
Pretty unremarkable
No one appreciates me
No one ever thanks me
No one wants to do my job
No one wants to feel so dirty
With mud and muck all over them
But everyone wants me to be here
Doing my job
Everyone wants to wipe their filth off
All over me
So they can walk on
Feeling clean and unencumbered
Though they don't appreciate me
Though they don't thank me
I am here
An unremarkable doormat
But I am tough enough
To scrape off all that muck
Yet soft enough
To give a bit and thus
Reach into the crevices
I'm sturdy enough to lie here
Year after year
Working away without falling apart
And integrous enough
To give a welcome to all who pass
I'm not too pretty
But I get the job done
Which is pretty remarkable, after all
I am a doormat!
