The Tracks or the Switch

You just stand on the tracks
As the train comes at you,
Or you stand at the switch,

Said a proud man who said
He chose the switch, which meant,
I’m not pleased, but I’ll live,

I’ll claim the choice was mine,
And I get to be why
I dodged that long, black train.

It’s not like that. The train
Eels off the tracks and glides
Through the waves of the lake.

Oh, did you say you chose
To stand at the switch, not
On the tracks? Well done, hey?