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.
