Bought and Sold

[madness]

The human spirit is not lost,
So it cannot be found.
It was abandoned in a dumpster
An infant thrown out with the trash

Tagged at a yard sale
Sold for cash
Transferred to your checking account
Expended
Depleted
Thrown away without a receipt.

At least glass can be recycled.

Wipe off the tarnish
Glue together any pieces you may salvage.
Incomplete,
Cracked,
Deflated,
It’s that thing you forgot to do,
in the back of your mind.


It ain’t no 401k
It ain’t no tax break
It ain’t accepted in major stores
But brothers and sisters, it better have your highest interest rate.

Bought and sold
For a pound of gold
Cast away never to be found
Hope it was worth that pound.

[Robert Stephen Herrick]

Life's value holds more worth than the world that surrounds it. Money is a false sense of trust and is murderous in amongst itself. Good and solid poetry has a value in part as life does as it sees the world, shows it as it is and may live to tell of those tales to remind others of its truths.