An Accountant's Song

An Accountant's Song

You are the sum total of your transactions:
Credits, debits, good will, depreciation,
All add up to where you finally stood.
A balance sheet of the bad, the good,
And Ambiguously Cooked plc;
Personal Love Count liability.

Emotional investments which rose, then slid
Into red mists of non-deductible rage.
Guilt-edged debts that were never repaid,
But always cleared by the final page.

Date mostly written: 2002