All our debts are owed to the living
only paying those obligations can appease
the shadows of the dead inside us
We mortgage ourselves –
we borrow against future intentions
trusting in some celestial banker to approve our loans
And when those debts are called in –
when the lender forecloses
it is too late to choose a different financial instrument
to say what we left unsaid
to do what we left undone
All our debts are to the living
those to the dead we own forever
