Enter the doorway of time carefully
For your mind will demand to go out shopping.
To step into the marketplace
Full of wants invented
With cares to redress;
Push a cart on wobbly wheels,
Down well stocked aisles of
Potential sustenance,
Difficult to resist,
Or wisely consider
For color, freshness, and flavor.
With promises of relief and
total satisfaction,
A hungry body and thirsty mind
Could be forgiven carelessness,
Mistaking taste for true nurturance.
Available at one low price
Desires and curiosities charm;
Cheap warranties and hidden costs
abound,
Claim more and more time,
Impose a slavery without manumission.
Passions owned tend to last and last,
As spellbound hearts chained
To purchases from your past,
Closed to requests for refunds and returns.
Stay focused on the real,
For time flies fast on tempting wings
in one stubborn mortal direction.
And if your mind shops unfocused
Resentments and envy will dominate
Full of regret for poor and unwanted
bargains,
Bound now to your silver shopping cart
Forced to trudge into a cheap future.
THH
11/1/24
Thoughts Have Hands 