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    Battle face, your skin’s displaced, the war is won, your sins erased

    The viewer sees an action scene, the actor sees a budding dream

    The gambit’s drawn, a fallen pawn, the first step of a marathon

    The taker sees an easy win, the giver sees an opening



    It all seems so black and white

    No wrong could ever come off as right

    You can spend your life being like the rest

    Stuck to the board just playing chess

    Climate change, earth rearranged, bow to down to the orangutan

    The penguins see they’re quarantined, the people build their submarines

    Meter made, a failing grade, a critic made for masquerade

    The student sees a rhyming scheme, the poet sees a hidden dream



    It all seems so black and white

    No wrong could ever come off as right

    You can spend your life being like the rest

    Stuck to the board just playing chess

    A strange device, the mental heist- the well-employed young poltergeist

    The skeptic thinks it’s forgery, the spirit knows its sorcery

    A lost address, USPS, our whereabouts are meaningless

    The postman sees a work reprieve, a traveler's topography

    Gambit won, the taker stunned, the undivided overrun

    The castled king is fortified, the fallen pawn immortalized



    It all seems so black and white

    No wrong could ever come off as right

    You can spend your life being like the rest

    Stuck to the board just playing chess

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