The way we laugh at Father Time
with memories, both yours and mine,
our own divine hilarity,
and twas for naught or remedy.

The innocents shall play kazoo
to serenade no more than two
to quell a stone severity,
and twas for naught or remedy.

And there are moments when a gourd
can turn an evanescent horde,
resign their veil to clarity
and twas for naught or remedy.

As when the music seems to drown
and ruminate its lack of sound,
to heaven and its blasphemy
and twas for naught or remedy.

For one adrift the sea without
an influential air about,
is left with only brevity
and twas for naught or remedy.