It's not a game
The way you play
The remedy's reluctant


Between X and Y
I cannot fight

Though absolute
The gathered moss
Is adamant and altered
Feathered and doused
And plagued with doubt

Divert crisis, avert emergency
We can scale mountains and never look down

Is this the time
The fine exchange
One ailment for another

Between X and Y
I'm left behind

My gracious hosts
Won't raise a glass
To this love unaltered
An architect
A joke made flesh