Pushover

You didn't know it but
I gave you a deadline.
I gave you a deadline,
And you missed it.
You missed it,
And you'll never know it even existed.
You'll never know it because,
My deadlines extend as far as you can push them.
Extend my deadline and it becomes a lifeline,
Reaching its hand out to you as far as it can
And then farther still.
Convenient.