Time Bandit

August 9, 2020

Has the future made a profit

by selling out your dreams

Marking up expectations,

closing out self esteem

Interest bearing hopes uncashed,

wishes in arrears

Creditors loom, the past foreclosed

—tomorrow paid in tears

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)

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