Pre-arranged Stoppage

It was the plan to pause.
To be ended, at an end.
Idiomatic attrition can't deny
a work stoppage.
It's past and before--
an implicitly reasonable bargain.
Slowness, until someone started 
counting.
Brawny and braying world,
brawl on another doorstep,
this is a peace house,
convicted of guilt
and no other crimes.
Continuities and confusion:
they each take their pound,
while cake eats us
and has us too.