Life Wrapping Emotions Unwrapped? Poem by Terence George Craddock

lives wax covered in transitory layers of cloth
wrapping paper our lives gift wrapped or ripped
open what is trade balance traced in net figures...

can fingers trace notations sums transactions
balances owing? will precise record of payments
as emotional deposits debts ungraded memories

recount our lives in remembered
familiar or forgotten foreign events?
letters lost recount no lives emails

leave no stylist script no character strokes
to fascinate in old ink on wilted yellowed
or dusty paper? ciphers sums tracing history

written in blood sweat tears
or fleeing greasy economic failures
who weighs life values credits?