Time Bandit
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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