Shelf-life

I'm hidden beneath these cardboard confines

Muffled by masking tape

Damned by dust.

Unknown,

And alone,

Haunted by perpetual sighs.

Reach in and retrieve

Inside the box that's keeping me.

Alive, I'll be-- filled with ranine divinity.

Find me,

Expose me,

I do not mind.

I am unlike any other kind.