Credit born from
the structure of indebtedness
is a debt in credit’s name,
measured in numbers,
tied to a fixed promise
to repay interest and principal
by a strict deadline.
That promise
hardens into a legal claim,
and the claim’s harsh exercise
becomes an unjust double demand
on credit already repaid,
producing an unjust transfer of wealth
and a fracture in the flow.
Thus capital’s gravity field
stops the current
and fractures relationships.
Credit loses its life;
only numbers remain,
and the hollow pull of extraction.
By contrast, credit born
from the grace of beholdenness
is a debt in credit’s name
that rises again,
not as repayment,
but as the act of re-giving.
It is letting
what I received from you
flow back into the world,
a vibrant chain of resonance
where giving becomes re-giving,
and re-giving becomes fresh giving.
And in that moment of re-giving,
extraction transforms into living care,
the current returns,
and relationships once fractured
open again.
