Bomb! Kill! Hunt! Steal! Hide! Fear!
Dies irae, dies illa,
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Bring me every measure
Bring me every price
Lay the crown beside the bread
Lay the gold I hid in stone
Set your names beneath the weights
Watch the beam bow to the salt
Crowns weigh nothing here
Gold forgets its number
Every scale you trusted
leans beneath one finger
Weigh your gold
Weigh your dead
Only one has weight here
Crowns weigh nothing here
Mine
Yours
More
Less
Buy
Sell
I split your beams at center
I turn the ledgers blank
I open every vault
I break the iron seals
Coins chatter down the steps
No hand stoops to gather
Crowns weigh nothing here
Gold forgets its number
Every scale you trusted
leans beneath one finger
Weigh your gold
Weigh your dead
Only one has weight here
Crowns weigh nothing here
Mine
Yours
More
Less
Buy
Sell
You priced the hour
You priced the field
You priced the mouth that needed bread
You priced the child
You priced the grave
You priced the hand that held the scale
I take the zero from your sums
I take the number from the year
Your ledgers close without a total
Your clocks keep time for no one here
I take the morning from the east
I call the salt back to the sea
Your seasons close like shuttered stalls
The sky rolls up like a receipt
Crowns weigh nothing here
Gold forgets your faces
Every scale you trusted
breaks beneath one finger
Weigh your gold
Weigh your dead
The beam falls toward the children
Crowns weigh nothing here
Empty stalls still mouth their prices
Sale signs knock against the shutters
Gold teeth rattle in the till
No one comes to close it
You called the world yours
I call it back