The Half-Remarkable Question

Who moved the black castle who moved the white queen
When Gimmel and Daleth where standing between?
Out of the evening growing a veil pining for the pine woods that ached for the sail
There's something forgotten I want you to know the freckles of rain are telling me so
O it's the old forgotten question what is that we are part of what is it that we are?

And an elephant madness has covered the sun
The judge and the juries they play for the fun
They've torn up the roses and washed all the soap
And the martyr who marries them dares not elope
O it's the never realised question what is that we are part of what is it that we are?

O long O long e're yet my eyes braved the gates enormous fire
And the body folded around me and the person in me grew
The flower and its petal the root and its grasp
The earth and its bigness the breath and its gasp
The mind and its motion the foot and its move
The life and its pattern the heart and its love
O it's the half-remarkable question what is that we are part of what is it that we are?