Outside looking in …

The delivery boy dropped off some packages
tied up with strings.
Wondered what was in them,
Spices?
Delicate china?
Or tiny, shiny,
glittery things.

Each evening after his work shift,
He walked past a store,
He peered through the windows
and the giant glass door,
Was dazzled by the velvety robes
and the pearls on strings,
He wondered if all this belonged to
only queens and kings.
Or was it the other way around,
And this story in fact,
have a plot and a spin,
The ones inside too,
were outside looking in …