"Let it kill you," it was written, but we soften the edge10Please respect copyright.PENANAIccQh05uHl
For the polite conversation—the edge of the ledge.10Please respect copyright.PENANAOMK86FqhVz
"Find something you love and then live for it," see?10Please respect copyright.PENANAOI7AJTLGHV
How we dress up the corpse so it dies gracefully.
But let’s talk about living; let’s talk about cost.10Please respect copyright.PENANALH33qo5BzX
Is it securing the frontier, or counting what’s lost?10Please respect copyright.PENANAIHY57YeNOb
It’s disposing of yourself, piece by raw piece,10Please respect copyright.PENANACAjXfJjrgb
Then sweeping up the shards just to buy a day's lease.
You walk the tightrope. You stay in your lane,10Please respect copyright.PENANAQpB1GETs3u
Barely crossing the path to keep pace with the pain.10Please respect copyright.PENANA4CyfaEmZlB
And don’t blame the language, no—10Please respect copyright.PENANAAdsCCG1c3i
the words aren’t the knife;10Please respect copyright.PENANAIU2T9BByJv
A double-edged sentence never took a man's life.
Or that is how we change the object:10Please respect copyright.PENANAbPM8UqsyYF
Change the target, exchange the subject.
The syllables sit there, transparent and cold—10Please respect copyright.PENANApMVGj60PhJ
It’s the throat of the speaker that does what it’s told.
So don't call it a quiet cessation,10Please respect copyright.PENANAkWPTDMk2ET
Don't say that it withered apart.10Please respect copyright.PENANAKW94vBQetg
There was too much machinery broken10Please respect copyright.PENANA3pXRdN3qjK
For this to be blamed on the heart.
What wasn't just flesh was still sacred and deep;10Please respect copyright.PENANA7zdPfKgbbD
It wasn't a spirit that drifted to sleep.10Please respect copyright.PENANAt1cdxIrhOv
Look at the bruising. Look at the chill.10Please respect copyright.PENANAaQwiR4jHGd
It wasn't a natural failure—10Please respect copyright.PENANAQcEVZPdmQA
It didn't just happen to die.
It was killed.
10Please respect copyright.PENANAg5F7mIiejd


