Poor Penny Days

I bought me a world
In the poor penny days
Paid for with love
From a heart which was young

And many years passed 
And that world was my own
It saw me through childhood 
And into well grown

And I never had cause
To have doubt for each day
For I cared for my world
As instructions did say

Till one day I woke 
To a creeping dark grey
And the sun wouldn't stay 
And the sun went away

And in panic and horror
I took that grey stack
Threw it with vengeance 
At the god's cheating back

And god fell down dead
And my world crumbled too
And with pennies redundant
What now can I do

For I've no world to live in
And no god to love
No place for home 
And no pennies to rub

For I bought me a world
In my poor penny days
But the sun didn't stay
No, the sun went away.

M 5/11/23