The Debt

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You will pay the debt

For the life that you get.

It’s a matter of interest

The heart compounds.

You are a loan of flesh and bone.

And when the body is done

Interest is accrued in breath,

Until all is foreclosed in death.

Just as you were made,

The debt will be repaid.

Terms and conditions

Said and unsaid.

Agreement tacit or willed,

Signed by you, 

Filed away and forgot,

Until the day it comes due.