Self Storage

Self Storage

Full of profound stuff...

Laugh
because you paid
enormous sums
for something
long-forgotten,
left behind,
and who knows,
maybe now laughing at you
from inside self storage.

There,
in the rectangular darkness
sits your soul,
or so you thought,
when you first purchased
that prized possession.

Now
here you sit in silence,
wondering if the price you paid
was worth the wisdom
you now possess.

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It is preoccupation with possessions,
more than anything else,
that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
~ Bertrand Russell