Window Shopping

Just because your purse is empty, it doesn't mean that you
Can't enjoy an afternoon whose aim is just to view
The goods that fill the windows of the multifarious shops
Which range from high end fashion to more mundane brooms and mops.
They all have wonderful displays, designed to tempt you in,
Full of hope once you're inside you'll hopefully begin
To feel you really need the goods to craftily arrayed
All around for you to see, with bargains well displayed.
But if you have no money and you haven't brought your cards,
You'll have no choice but be the sort who carefully guards
Against temptation which can lead so easily toward
Buying things you do not need and also can't afford.
But you can still enjoy some hours daydreaming of the day
When you can enter any shop and know that you can say
That you will have whatever goods your eyes have lit upon,
As window shopping only days have now all long since gone.