The Bones

Where are the jewels buried?
Where are the rusted rings?
The forgotten and treasured.
Important things.

They took them all with them.
To the depths down below.
Garlanded and wreathed.
In a world of saddened sorrow.

Lying cold in state.
Boxed in and straight.
Flesh that decayed.
A long time ago.

Diamonds and Gold.
Silver and Jade.
So many glorious gildings.
Never more displayed.

The bones will remain.
Because they contain.
Dreams and memories.
Over many centuries.

We can’t take them with us.
These trinkets of ours.
All we can do.
Is value the hours.