THE TYRANNY OF THINGS

I am trying to rule
        over ten thousand things
which I thought
        belonged to me.
All of a sudden
        a doubt take wings:
Do they...
        or could it be..? 

A hardhanded hunch
        in my mind's ear rings
from whence
        such suspicions may stem:
that if you posses
        more than just eight things
then y o u
        are possessed by t h e m