Your Past’s Your Beast

Your past both fuels
And eats your now.
Now what? The debts
You earned, what’s left,

Will fuel and chew
What’s next. It’s this
Way at each step.
You look for clues,

Look out at those
Whose pasts yield more
Fuel now, whose pasts
Eat less. You fool.

You can’t swap pasts.
Your beast is yours.
It eats. You lose.
It leaves. You get.