Tension

frail hinges pivot
 on a cases door
 commemorative
 souvenirs from places
 containers change
 with each occasion
 cellophane encased
 displaying paper
 certificate
 credit years of service
 a tool of
 central enterprises
 the early hope
 for permanence the
 words the rings
 consistency
 and social security the
 miracles high tragedy
 a thought mistaken
 for a memory
 dress lenghts
 assassinations
 fractured family ties
 christenings
 local posts they
 list your friends
 in order of
 disappearance
 lawn scattered tins
 feed birds the
 portion baked for
 absent guests
 mass edition icon
 god sent comfort is
 your salvation
 but who grants
 absolution for sins
 that never were committed
 tension
 makes a tangle
 of each thought becomes
 inconvenience
 sound never penetrate
 as servile edges
 break and faint
 a thought mistaken
 for a memory
 clear the dust from
 smiles in boxes
 cross a patterned floor
 recall the voices