The Existential Skeleton

The porcelain skeleton sits
A mockery of humanity
Smiling with horrific glee
Staring in challenge at all
Yet never rising in civil greeting
It apes out existence
Yet is no less real
As it clacks and clatters
A structure without identity
A house without a home
A mockery that is in essence
A very good representation
Of the part of us
More lasting than flesh.