Relic

When I removed my wedding
Ring
I placed it in a small enamel
Casket.
Snapping shut the lid
I placed the tiny
Relic
On a window sill
And have not touched it
Since.

I suppose there are

Reasons
We bury those
Things
That cause pain
Simply by their
Remembrances
And their
All too common
Usage.

Were you to examine its

Construct
It is nothing more than a few grams of
Gold
Pressed into the shape
Of  a cheap wedding
Ring.
However, in abundance of caution
I insist the dead bury their
Dead.