A Shop Named Karma Poem by Arno Le Roux

A Shop Named Karma

Behold the shopkeeper's awesome display
Clockwise designed not to delay
Boasting the shelves of human affairs
Right to the end by the exiting stairs

She has OCD and no thing out of place
Every deed neatly tied up with scarlet lace
She let's us loose in her shop of crystal and glass
Each down the Isle of ego and class

Timing the thoughts both inning and out
She pencils a mark or rubs one out
Each customer's visit then later well weighed
She smiles as they wave and then sighed

'Thank you for shopping and do hurry back! '
'I'll tally your purchase before this day's black'
She pulls tighter on lace knots of loving we gave
And loosens the others where hate made us slave

Behind her explosions of crystal and glass
Glitter in orbits as things came to pass
Tilting off shelves as knots no more care
Gravity kissed loud as they lay there

Outside a man tripped, falling a horrible blow
Sleet was the reason and his hat was too low
Well, so the caring people thought anyway
Telling their stories to dear ones later that day

Arno Le Roux 2015