"Around the wheel of life across the sky"

Within Darkness When light is long and low late in the day Waiting for me within darkness is dawn The only thing left when the dark is gone And nothing lasts forever so they say I have done it the hard way for so long Pomp and extenuating circumstance Not really knowing what I am doing Trying to do right and not to do wrong Growing up as a boy in a bubble I cannot complain but I do anyway Since everyone else can as well as do If I complain I have it coming too Though I have nothing to complain about And I am content because I know that The light is on within when it is out With the equipoise of a diplomat I can embrace the one or the other I could reach for the light but why bother When the wheel of life is the rheostat Bringing the light up and down and around? It only goes to come around in fact Whenever the light is lost it is found Returning from its turning back intact When night is longest then light comes again The sun is still there where storms are brewing Here where love surprises on the rebound Where no one wants to be any trouble And nothing lasts forever so they say The turning and returning I live by Beginning up east and ending down west To me yet continuing through the rest Unmoving and yet always moving on And all things turn in turn within the dance Turning as light and darkness interact Around the wheel of life across the sky When light is long and low late in the day And I am content because I know that Waiting for me within darkness is dawn With the equipoise of a diplomat The only thing left when the dark is gone +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX