keys

a drawer full
of keys.
large, small, thin,
to mail boxes,
and locks
to doors you know
longer
care to get into.
car keys.
bike chains.
some on clasps,
or tied together
with string.
metal rings.
silver and bronze,
burnished
with time, the turn
of a hand.
all keys eventually
come here
to rest.
in this drawer,
no longer needed,
no longer
wanted, just left
to sit. abandoned.