BOX

There is a little box
Sitting in a room.
Like any other box
Sitting in a room.

It is made of cardboard,
And is covered with dust.
It endlessly sits there,
Unmoving and untouched.

It is unremarkably ordinary,
And trivial and plain.
Yet I can’t help but wonder,
At what it contains.

-Shashank V Rao