Saddness Overwhelms My Soul...

You bring your cardboard boxes and tape. You slowly and machinely pick the stuff off the shelves, floor, out of the closets, and out of the drawers, you place it in the boxes until it is full, and then you start again. Over and over, soon, so soon all my things, my belongings, will be filed away, boxed away...when with I see all my stuff? How happy the reunion will be when I am in my new home, unpacking all my boxes, smiling as I lift each item out and whisper, "you've been gone a long time, I really missed you, thank goodness you're home..."