Lyric

Available balance

Not enough

Pending charges

Still moving

Expected response

Overdue

Emotional reserve

Declining

I checked the number

Then locked the screen

Like the math would change

If I stopped looking

No one made the call

No one spent my week

I did what I did

And the proof stayed clean

I said yes too often

With a tired face

Then blamed the calendar

For taking space

I know where it went

The cash

The sleep

The patience

I know what I spent

To look

Like I could take it

Low Balance, High Expectations

I still answer like I’m fine

Standing there with empty pockets

And a full list in my mind

No one has to break me

I keep signing up myself

Every promise takes a little

From the balance I had left

I gave my best hour

To things I didn’t mean

Gave my last calm minute

To a glowing screen

I saved my anger

For a private place

Then used it on myself

In smaller ways

There’s money missing

But that’s not all

There’s a quiet part of me

That stopped returning calls

I know what I owe

The rent

The names

The morning

I know what I chose

The delay

The drift

The warning

Low Balance, High Expectations

I keep standing in the light

With my chest full of excuses

That I will not say tonight

No one has to chase me

I keep moving late myself

Every almost takes a little

From the balance I had left

One apology

Saved for later

One message

Left unread

One plan

Kept untouched

One meal

Eaten standing

One body

Running quiet

One mind

Past its limit

I am not asking

To be forgiven

By the room

I am not making

A tragedy

Out of a receipt

I am saying

There is a kind of debt

That does not show

On the screen

You spend yourself

In small permissions

A little yes

A little sure

A little I can handle that

Then one day

You look inside

And even your silence

Has insufficient funds

Low Balance, High Expectations

I still write my name in full

Still show up with shaking hands

And try to make them useful

No one has to save me

I will count what I have done

But I need to stop confusing

Being needed with enough

Tomorrow

I will answer fewer things

Tomorrow

I will keep one hour clean

Tomorrow

I will not call depletion

Discipline

Tomorrow

I will leave something

In the account

For me