old hat, new shoes, pt. iii

upon reinhabiting your former room,

you find its closet, shelves, drawers,

nooks, crannies, and all other means of storage

utterly overflowing with ancient artifacts.

the time has come to don your pith helmet,

fetch your duster brush,

and go for a dig.

your discoveries are overwhelmingly clear:

you're too sentimental for your own good.

correction -

you were too sentimental for your own good.

you find that you've lived without these antiquities

for years,

and have not missed them even once.

all they do now is sit

and sit

and sit.

you now know far better than you did back then

that a ratty, old t-shirt, old class notes,

and all the other bits and bobs and odds and ends,

regardless of whatever sentimental value they possess,

there's better treasure to be found,

and that treasure

is

not

here.