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 at the mall.