So, this <br />is it? <br /> <br />Life's little artifacts <br /> <br />his life scattered <br />the contents of this <br /> <br />cardboard box <br /> <br />a broken <br />wrist watch <br /> <br />hands missing <br /> <br />a faded ribboned <br />...medal <br /> <br />an incomplete <br />love letter <br /> <br />pages 2 & 7 <br />missing <br /> <br />photos <br />torn <br /> <br />tattered with time <br />when the world <br /> <br />was a sepia hue <br /> <br />even the box <br />they are in is <br /> <br />battered <br /> <br />nothing of any <br />great value. <br /> <br />So lively <br />all go <br /> <br />despite age trying <br />to hold him back <br /> <br />a regular <br />Jack in the Box <br /> <br />....buried <br />yesterday <br /> <br />no tears <br />no nothing <br /> <br />nothing remaing <br />of his time <br /> <br />except this <br />bric a brac <br /> <br />knocking about <br />in an old shoe box <br /> <br />about to be <br />...binned.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jack-in-a-box/
