A penny used to buy you a gumball

Granted not what one may consider the normal grace of giving Thanks to all, just mine

When in lack of thanks

One finds the essence of woe

Once more in its depths

Glow gone dim

All brightness gone

Shadows far forgotten

Only then I see true depths

And know the reality of Hell

Forgive my irreverence

Using the capital H

But being mere mortal

Leads beyond

And then a glimpse

A shaken awakening

Some gasp of reality

Into dawn’s brightness

Still blurry eyed to all

Till mere sight returns

I sit up near erect

To realize what

This moment to be thankful

Simple enjoyment a-wonder

For all there is

Lord to be alive cries out

And then I realize

Thank me

For without pen this outcome gone

Thank you

For without all nowhere to go