To Transcend for Gerald Tate May I transcend someday somehow and may Death the ineluctable Come as it will nor would I elude it To find indestructible This old soul when young life has renewed it To rise again and to be The continuing quintessential me And the how it will be now will be right If I am to rise and am to go on I will if forgotten at least not gone I have found existence to be painful And deity when it deigned disdainful Oh leave me alone to do as I please I just want to say But this is how I defeat our disease To transcend this way And I will be freer than anything I ever imagined before in my Pretranscendental perspective I bring So painfully to bear before I die I want to transcend and I want to sing How I never dreamed I could get that high Human life does not so much have an end As rather a point at which to transcend +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX