The Museum's 'Personal Possessions From a Shipwreck'

A recent visit to an eclectic museum trying to achieve many things in a small space. Unintentionally presented in the style of a lucid dream. Harps through the ages (with audio), a collection of children's toys (with brief notes about who owned them), a human skeleton (example of preservation of bone), important paintings and prints of fish, axes through the ages (note to say chainsaws are now used - exclamation mark added to note hilarity of how times change). I rested upon the following display and thought about it... Personal possessions from a shipwreck The oddity of prized finds: Insole of a shoe Broken plate Comb Child's marble All encased is glass Evidence of life and death, acquired and simply labelled Perhaps elsewhere are the statistics How many souls onboard Still saying nothing The ordinariness of items spared by the sea From a day it swallowed whole so many dreams And how safely those objects are kept How we all hold objects sacred Evidence of a life But meaningless in the scheme of things