"Let it kill you," it was written, but we soften the edge33Please respect copyright.PENANAOOmWqkUknH
For the polite conversation—the edge of the ledge.33Please respect copyright.PENANAt0drDnZs5d
"Find something you love and then live for it," see?33Please respect copyright.PENANAr1Sf9bLNTb
How we dress up the corpse so it dies gracefully.
But let’s talk about living; let’s talk about cost.33Please respect copyright.PENANAHj9qIrybBV
Is it securing the frontier, or counting what’s lost?33Please respect copyright.PENANA542oRL1O5b
It’s disposing of yourself, piece by raw piece,33Please respect copyright.PENANAViOenTkrCu
Then sweeping up the shards just to buy a day's lease.
You walk the tightrope. You stay in your lane,33Please respect copyright.PENANArKig9P9XSt
Barely crossing the path to keep pace with the pain.33Please respect copyright.PENANADRXtekTN0W
And don’t blame the language, no—33Please respect copyright.PENANAyg3oxBThty
the words aren’t the knife;33Please respect copyright.PENANAwrLfuOMd22
A double-edged sentence never took a man's life.
Or that is how we change the object:33Please respect copyright.PENANAbmM4n8Ee4h
Change the target, exchange the subject.
The syllables sit there, transparent and cold—33Please respect copyright.PENANAvmjmFjBfrT
It’s the throat of the speaker that does what it’s told.
So don't call it a quiet cessation,33Please respect copyright.PENANAmM5X1oXIDi
Don't say that it withered apart.33Please respect copyright.PENANAzIp8Nbb5Ua
There was too much machinery broken33Please respect copyright.PENANALbnc0q41HZ
For this to be blamed on the heart.
What wasn't just flesh was still sacred and deep;33Please respect copyright.PENANAlaK1sfLAcC
It wasn't a spirit that drifted to sleep.33Please respect copyright.PENANA1Q65GLwLb9
Look at the bruising. Look at the chill.33Please respect copyright.PENANArZ87RNgrom
It wasn't a natural failure—33Please respect copyright.PENANARSv2tMjFzQ
It didn't just happen to die.
It was killed.
33Please respect copyright.PENANAg3zzQ588I8


