Modjeska coming to the canyon I once had a home and I lost it I could not afford what it cost: it Pretty much cost me everything I Had then asked for more but that is why I find myself in a quiet place Where I can trace all the stars of space The sun going up and coming down Much more clearly than I could in town So here I am with only wild birds And the occasional rooster or Other creature which never had words But I have some and will have some more Now: no looking back nor thinking twice I think I have found my paradise The universe found this new home for A rambler who may not ramble much But by this creek and these hills and such Which is the best rambling anyway And having come here to roll the dice I think I have found my home today When it rains and the water flows then frogs will come As sure as the anything anyone knows some Sounds I have seldom heard before will come to be The background sound of a new life in a new place Where I will embrace my fall in nature's embrace With sounds of other new lives speaking peace to me Ready to be in the middle of nowhere now To find myself at the center of everywhere Having learned the hard way to care and not to care The rain the water and the frogs will teach me how Here now in my new life afterlife state of grace +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMIX