entering the days of obligation

[fledgist]

our task is not to watch but just to win

pure gold each time without a single flaw

leaving the fools to weep into the straw

 

those who were warm had no need to come in

or so they thought until they spied the claw

our task is not to watch but just to win

 

against the odds and to keep whole the skin

of all we cherish from freeze to the thaw

not out of duty nor because of law

our task is not to watch but just to win