So it is punching in or clocking out, we trade in time
Like a black check, pay the rent or debt - how our lives get
Spent. arrested effort. stuck in this sentence. fleeting comforts
Leave seasons scarred, or lost like arguments. miscalculations
Leave the means unjustified. the haunted questions come with shaking
Heads. they hunt the youngest and tie their tongues up
You cut open speech when you chew your teeth
It's all a mess: a trash or spit abyss