"Let it kill you," it was written, but we soften the edge24Please respect copyright.PENANA7mQrXBcTdV
For the polite conversation—the edge of the ledge.24Please respect copyright.PENANA1LMPDIE7jI
"Find something you love and then live for it," see?24Please respect copyright.PENANArhvx5MdxaQ
How we dress up the corpse so it dies gracefully.
But let’s talk about living; let’s talk about cost.24Please respect copyright.PENANAuRZ7WF53qi
Is it securing the frontier, or counting what’s lost?24Please respect copyright.PENANAHJ5o9FSR90
It’s disposing of yourself, piece by raw piece,24Please respect copyright.PENANA5SHqBBeSp5
Then sweeping up the shards just to buy a day's lease.
You walk the tightrope. You stay in your lane,24Please respect copyright.PENANAjy4SIuYv3D
Barely crossing the path to keep pace with the pain.24Please respect copyright.PENANAaG13Kv8BXa
And don’t blame the language, no—24Please respect copyright.PENANA1LudFbodQk
the words aren’t the knife;24Please respect copyright.PENANAvx7iOmGdWP
A double-edged sentence never took a man's life.
Or that is how we change the object:24Please respect copyright.PENANAlWuy8kCS0Y
Change the target, exchange the subject.
The syllables sit there, transparent and cold—24Please respect copyright.PENANA2a6mJTkFki
It’s the throat of the speaker that does what it’s told.
So don't call it a quiet cessation,24Please respect copyright.PENANACxHD0q6mdj
Don't say that it withered apart.24Please respect copyright.PENANAlZHQGSX7Id
There was too much machinery broken24Please respect copyright.PENANAg3nAftDpeT
For this to be blamed on the heart.
What wasn't just flesh was still sacred and deep;24Please respect copyright.PENANAdsQPfzsSJG
It wasn't a spirit that drifted to sleep.24Please respect copyright.PENANAb9IHqeIEhG
Look at the bruising. Look at the chill.24Please respect copyright.PENANAZIgcOuHTPs
It wasn't a natural failure—24Please respect copyright.PENANA6E5JU3yhEC
It didn't just happen to die.
It was killed.
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