I'm just an ear
In a jar
A fossil really
Set aside on a self
Just for you
But also everyone else
I'm on display
In a gilded cage
We call shared history
And when I'm dropped
I'm picked back up
No mind to the fresh dents and scratches
Up I go
To my pedestal
Until another tremor shakes me loose
I exist here
Just for you
The others think so too
I am a personal
Communal
Garbage pit
I'm just an ear
Never a mouth