"Let it kill you," it was written, but we soften the edge22Please respect copyright.PENANAXfbKmM4LK8
For the polite conversation—the edge of the ledge.22Please respect copyright.PENANA6zS5mH3f74
"Find something you love and then live for it," see?22Please respect copyright.PENANAgv5dNgPJwc
How we dress up the corpse so it dies gracefully.
But let’s talk about living; let’s talk about cost.22Please respect copyright.PENANAkKpqMcpo2k
Is it securing the frontier, or counting what’s lost?22Please respect copyright.PENANA8u3ZedyWVt
It’s disposing of yourself, piece by raw piece,22Please respect copyright.PENANAyN2UEOWTmN
Then sweeping up the shards just to buy a day's lease.
You walk the tightrope. You stay in your lane,22Please respect copyright.PENANAT4GRUxmEaQ
Barely crossing the path to keep pace with the pain.22Please respect copyright.PENANAw2VMQwsen2
And don’t blame the language, no—22Please respect copyright.PENANAe0VeiSZu5V
the words aren’t the knife;22Please respect copyright.PENANAq1X9kryYN4
A double-edged sentence never took a man's life.
Or that is how we change the object:22Please respect copyright.PENANAYQha4bhXpq
Change the target, exchange the subject.
The syllables sit there, transparent and cold—22Please respect copyright.PENANAazQxKU9VaB
It’s the throat of the speaker that does what it’s told.
So don't call it a quiet cessation,22Please respect copyright.PENANAh9l6K07dez
Don't say that it withered apart.22Please respect copyright.PENANAWbwA8Bx3nu
There was too much machinery broken22Please respect copyright.PENANATVAiCLeyzo
For this to be blamed on the heart.
What wasn't just flesh was still sacred and deep;22Please respect copyright.PENANAIxDm0gzOrF
It wasn't a spirit that drifted to sleep.22Please respect copyright.PENANAqPIWRsWAAr
Look at the bruising. Look at the chill.22Please respect copyright.PENANARQtoYXmsur
It wasn't a natural failure—22Please respect copyright.PENANASsothZzPtd
It didn't just happen to die.
It was killed.
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