The Altar of Things I Don't Need

What terrible timing 

For the world to come shuttering to a stop

For them to ask that I change the way

I see my life going

They must not understand

I really want to, but

I have things to do

5 year plans

Amazon wish lists

A career to secure

A 401(k) to fill? 

And oh

It will be so very hard 

To stop myself from 

From throwing my money away 

On things I don’t need 

Things manufactured with blood

But that will not 

for more than a week

Fill the soul-shaped hole

That wails dreadfully inside my chest