"Sorting Laundry"-metaphor

"Sorting Laundry" by Elisavietta Ritchie is a bit of a sad poem.  "Folding clothes, I think of folding you into my life."  This is an example of a metaphor.  The speaker is missing someone, and she wants this person back in her life.  In this poem, the speaker is looking back on her life with a previous loved one.  The laundry symbolizes all the memories they had together.  "A mountain of unsorted wash could not fill the empty side of the bed."  The "unsorted wash" stands for all the things they missed out on.  This also shows that her lover either left her or passed away.