In a single lifetime
A collection of knick-knacks
Memories and past times
Cumulating like the years
Things that were important
Dust and tarnish lay claim to
Victories past lose themselves
In the progression of time
So, custodians of relics, all
Some few, some yet many
Relegated to the four winds
In a life's ultimate cessation
Cast off to the spheres again
Never to be amassed still
Some to be lost in eternity
Others to find new curration
An age gone by, meaning lost
Significance of sentiment
Scavenged from final defeat
Fairness formally depleted