We pay with what we could've done and what we could've learned.
We pay with the people we could've met, and the conversations we could have had.
We pay with every future us, that we could've been,
We pay with the values we did not live by,
We pay with the goals we did not reach,
We pay with every opportunity to become more fully alive, that is now gone.
We pay with the moments of joy that never happened,
We pay with the peaceful sleep,
and the refreshed feeling in the morning,
that we didn't get.