The Mall

For all of my shopping years I can recall, I’d love spending time at a popular mall. I’d go by myself or with family or friends And stay a few hours or more - it depends. The stores were so varied and though I’d keep track, My favorites were always there, luring me back. When I’d need a break to the food court I’d head - There were fries there and ice cream, that’s quite enough said! I no longer shop like I used to and so A mall is a place where I no longer go. Yet recently, just to kill time, there I was With my husband and talk about absence of buzz - The place was a ghost town - the shops weren’t closed, Which is what, in all honestly, we had supposed, But there were so few people I can’t comprehend How those stores stay in business with no one to spend. It made me feel sad that a part of my life Has been severed as if with a surgical knife For an Amazon search cannot equal at all To the times I spent browsing all day in a mall.