Every dollar gone.
Every bit of sense expended.
Every buck wildly misplaced
from my billfold.
Everything is lost.
I am exhausted.
I am beaten.
I am spent.

It wasn’t so long ago
that I was flush with excitement.
Opportunity abounded
and I was able to express my appreciation
for the world around me
with thoughtful donations.

Times change,
and now nobody wished me
to deposit anything of mine
anywhere at all.
Not that there’s anything left
to share.

I am now without.
I have nothing.
I go on
with naught to give.
I can’t even provide fresh words
to describe the predicament
since I’m spent.