Lyric

Your plan renews tonight

Your progress may be lost

Your current self

Will remain available

Until the next billing cycle

I joined the gym

For the man in the photo

Standing straighter

Under cleaner light

I bought the course

With the voice that promised

Small steps

Would become a life

Three unopened emails

Said welcome back

One app asked gently

If I was still on track

Drink more water

Fix the morning

Read ten pages

Call it healing

Track the sleep

Name the feeling

Stand up taller

Earn the evening

I am almost someone

I can use

Almost better

Almost new

I keep paying

To become

The kind of man

I keep postponing

The lessons waited

In numbered folders

The trainer smiled

From a frozen screen

I saved a meal plan

I never followed

Then ate standing up

By the kitchen sink

A better version

Kept buffering softly

Wearing my face

With cleaner habits

I watched him move

Through a possible morning

Then closed the tab

Before it happened

You may cancel anytime

But the need will remain

You may pause the plan

But not the shame

You may change your password

You may change your name

You may start again

And still start the same

I am almost someone

I can trust

Almost disciplined

Almost enough

I keep paying

To become

The kind of man

I keep postponing

Nobody forced me

Nobody lied

They only held up

A clearer life

A sharper jaw

A cleaner room

A calendar filled

With proof I improved

And I wanted it

I did

That is the worst part

On the night

I forgot to cancel

I saw the line

In black and blue

Subscription to a Better Self

And under it

My real name

Still misspelled

By everything I tried to become

I am almost someone

I can keep

Almost rested

Almost free

But the charge goes through

While I sleep

And the old me wakes up

Holding the receipt