09.21.26
mystery box…
mystery box…
a kid on a hightailed scooter left a mystery box at a home for the future…
on a welcome mat it laid with no activity in sight at that location for days…
a neighbor discovered an unlocked door and set the box on an empty floor…
sun dittoed by as the place stood vacant but for a solitary box remaining…
later the neighbor thought about how boxes end up inside a wrong house…
so in a u-turn of feet it arrived at a cottage for yesterday along a dirt street…
a window opened underground ‘tho too small to fit thru’ to climb in or out…
then a box grew weary when sudden sleet stiffened it into a cold solo seat…
a guy riding by backed up and it landed at a community’s gated entrance…
soon it rested in a more visible spot looking to drain any vagrancy it got…
it watched for its chances as the complex accommodated a lot of the past…
but no occupants came to claim a box so there it stayed hoping not to rot…
a sprinter ran it to a bungalow for tomorrow then onto a courtyard stone…
at least it’d sleep under a sheltering roof while awaiting a dubious rescue…
as running shoes started to go only loneliness entered that backyard patio…
so a box sat with little to do except yearn for whatever it might belong to…
a groundskeeper then realized that the box was meant for some other time…
after trudges of feeling misled it now felt so grateful at a today’s residence…
it instantly swelled into a realm for life to live in the moment and be alive!…
as a note read… “this gift is given to help a home by being in the present!”…
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