Misfiled (3)

 You are not in the right box,

 and yet it does not bother you,

 because you are past caring. 

 

The watchers are not,

 and so they are trying to tear

 down the walls of Sanctuary. 


 I require you to go back,

 and explain, 

 that they need not shed so many tears.

 It makes it difficult for me to do my work. 

 

If they carry on,

 there will be more mistakes, 

and perhaps there is someone else in the box labelled for you.

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