As in Synonymous

Chest

like vault

or treasure keeper-

holder

as in Heart

or locket, like a lockbox

fitted with skeleton key-

hole-

simply very heavy

and something

sounds 

broken

inside.

Unable to lift alone

as pallbearer in the past

I feel the dead weight 

familiar remembering

without seeing

This must be why

we bury our dead

in wooden chests such

as these 

likewise.

Photo credit: Harris & Ewing, photographer, taken 1925 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

dropping the ball

As the overhead lights dim and dawn,

memorists and statisticians note

the smuggled force in-formation,

feigns power.

Smarter than the averages

within their means.

If it were up to us

burrowed heads,

footprints and carbonated 

rhetoric would leave a mark.

As observed, hope floats away,

proof we are wingless, too heavy

for syllogisms sake. 

It is not as though we are not necessary.

We are...proof, part air. 

Forecasting all is Fair 

weather wise

we are all 

dead weight-

Wait...

what about us?

Image By Pixelmaniac pictures (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.