Brilliant Stillness

He reads three languages before the coffee's cold. Sees the ending of the argument

before it's told. Knows how the system bends, where the pressure goes.

Which wire to cut, how the outcome flows. Teacher said,

"You'll change the game someday." But the game learned faster how to make him

stay. Every door unlocked, every path made clear. Funny how the

obvious ways move him to tears. Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, oh, oh. When you know how things could

last, you stop clapping for the fall. When you see the whole machine,