Here’s your receipt for all the whippings you took
back in a former life, when you lived by the book.
Yes, it is hard to relive pained memories.
But harder yet is to walk on your knees.
The overseers’ undertakers overtook you at last.
Don’t let that change your life. It’s all in the past.
The fate that ruled you then has since been amended.
And to your soul a new end has been appended.
You’ve put some tough time in. Now much is owed.
Stand up and walk your path. You are unbowed.
And though the book has changed, it still needs rewriting.
You hold the pen and ink. Now come out fighting.