Give or take
The genetic
Crushing blows
To my body
Balanced by
Several pleasing
Features
Even virtues
I have gotten
Everything
I have ever wanted
And it‘s terrifying:
He who kills the pacer
In the Temple of Diana
Treads softly as he approaches
Breaches the Sacred Grove
I do not think he sees me
Wants only to kill the pacer
Lives to kill the pacer
The pacer he‘s been promised
The pacer most of all
Not got the pacer yet—he waits
Nor gotten all he‘s wanted—waits
Told he might be chosen—leaps
Too late I see I am the pacer
The prey that he shall keep
The prey that he shall kill.