Every debt to be repaid

There was never any doubt that it must be done

Though in myself, all faith was laid.

And the smiles came easily as I played

For there is joy alone in being young

Though all debts must someday be repaid...

And through those years of borrowing, yet I saved

For a future never sought, and thus never won

Faithless, while in me a new fate was laid.

The eternal twilight of a once-new day

Now time for an accounting, and I must see to it alone--

Every debt tallied, for all must be repaid.

And all convictions, though naively made

Proven, polished with much labor til they shone

Though no longer in myself was my faith laid.

Or in any other, though everything bade

A love surpassing the gratitude owed

For debts taking a lifetime's effort to repay

And though sometimes I would have made

An alteration in that which I would never have undone

It is but a fear of debts which can never be repaid

And an endless doubt, that all that could cannot now be done.