Last Check To Cash Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

How do I exit gracefully,
how do I end it all

Can I rewrite the terms again
before the final fall

The kids now counting every day
the moments still all mine

The days and weeks of years gone by
a measure now defined

How do I finally say goodbye
and start anew again

This world peeled back against itself
no more left to befriend

Regret a word best left behind
for others who have sinned

Stepping into eternity's vault
—last check to cash within

(Train #56 ‘Vermonter' To White River Junction Vt.3/22/2018)