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Kurt Philip Behm Jul 2023
Buying tomorrow
one day at a time
Each moment invested
in freedom sublime
The future remortgaged
all lien holders paid
The past earning interest
—on fortune today

(The New Room: July, 2023)
Max Charlton Oct 2017
There has to be a better way
Working hard, making bets just to get some extra pay
Getting wrong when bosses' targets aren't being met
Forced to work outside through cold, the dark, the damp and wet

Back-breaking work and extra overtime
Just to keep stable and above the bread line
The pain of work, the dull, the strife
Just sacrifice your social life

To pay off a house you've remortgaged twice
You work from dawn, 'till noon and night
To wake for work feeling down and ******
Focus on the better things, live for things that make you happy
first poem ever written, apologies for structure.
Kurt Philip Behm May 2022
The encumbrance of peace
is war
Silence remortgaged
—as payments begin

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)
Kurt Philip Behm Mar 2022
Death indicts you
seasons past
prophets marking
spells recast
Life remortgaged
debt remains
time indentured
—hope reclaimed

(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)
Kurt Philip Behm Aug 2020
When death came ‘a calling,’
again thus denied

The future remortgaged
—payment applied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)

— The End —