Check out
creatures,
features,
healing oozing in
while we look about.
Been ripped by a tongue
with soul-splitting words.
Where’s love when you need it?
Does anyone keep score?
Life? It’s a five and dime store

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Hope, Faith,
Charity …
serene … they soothe, calm
with a look, their palm.
Compassion stank, died,
tears decayed inside.
Where’s mercy? We need it …
always have. Need it more
at life’s counter … get it and more.

Check out
prayer
hymns too …
that’ll help see us through
the trials, storms, stew.
Merchandise is cheap …
only life matters.
Hope’s there with Clarity--
Faith, Love and Charity.
in life’s five and dime store.

Check out
check in;
Leaving,
begin …
angels give what we need—
all things, except greed.
There’s nothing we can see—
just our souls’ d’livery—
from His five and dime store.