After the bender

After you've spent your supposed excess

the thump of your remaining pulse

echo-pumps through your flesh.



What you'd set aside to squander

you misjudged perhaps.



What's left behind might not be enough

to get you to the finish line in style.

Although however you cross it, 

it still signifies the end.



It would be nice to have enough left over

to touch finger to brim

before departing.