Paying The Bills

by Thomas   Aug 5, 2012


My whole life
I have been making payments
Constantly making
new settlements

Feeling drained like
a tequila shot lemon
No more energy
to carry on

Every morning feels like
passing a toll booth
Cause every time I wake up
I pay a piece of my youth

Every birthday
feels like a tax day
Cause then I make inventory
of things I threw away

Treating friends
Like I would deductibles
The urge to discard them
Simply indestructible

These costs of life
I simply can't afford
Should have strangled myself
with the umbilical cord

Saved myself and the world
these huge amounts of pain
And the tears that have flown
like the rhythm in a refrain

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  • 12 years ago

    by Baby Rainbow

    There is a lot to take fromt his poem, I have read it over and over trying to understand your point, each time I come up with another. The main thing that jumps out is the relation to the money, bills, payments which suggests you are stressed in this department? Or simply fed up of having debts perhaps?
    You could be using the money as a metaphor also relating to other aspects in your life which are stressful.

    What jumps out the most is the end stanza's where you express what you feel about yourself as being unworthy of being here, like you are a burden. Using the umbilical cord implys maybe that you have felt this way since you were young enough to remember? Like you have always felt like a burden to those around you, even as a child?

    This is deep and sad, but you have penned it well. good work.