"And seeing believing I come to see forever"

Believe It or Not One A tempest in a teapot a typhoon in a spoon Camouflaged chameleons none but the blind can tell Obeisance to the sun done in the dark of the moon Pigs flying in formation on a cold day in hell Circumnavigating by not going anywhere Two Mad scientists with vaccinations for our disease Tested on the suppressed and then reserved for the best Of the rest who were the worst before the bubble burst Robots marching four abreast into a wishing well But they do not suffer as we do and wish them to Three I never thought forever could be over so soon But our disease remains incurable as ever And over and under and around and out and through Another forever is as easy as you please You can grab one right now out of the air if you dare Four There were forevers at my feet in the street today But if you cannot find one you may take one of these As the lotus unfolds through a few absurdities It never hurts to have a spare forever or two Given how scared we seem to be of finding never Five And then they only last as long as now anyway Before being sanitized into our sanities Underestimated to irrelevance to be Rarified into our ritual inanities To be the state religion of a moment ago Six We are rather silly animals if you ask me Terrified and scarified with battle lines drawn on The worried brows of worriers who soon will be gone Persisting in pursuing and pinning forever Resisting and insisting to know what not to know Seven Self-consuming candles cannot last the night till dawn Which is why I do not worry anymore you see By transcending both the bonfire and the vanities I enjoy the equipoise of doing and being I like it better when my in and outside agree Eight And if some want to worry about their forever Let them begin by being open to their seeing Stop resisting seeing what insists on being there I would love to have a hand in freeing them and yet Forever is never when they need it I regret Nine Camouflaged chameleons none but the blind can tell And I can tell if not tell when their minds have been made A tempest in a teapot a typhoon in a spoon Robots marching four abreast into a wishing well But I am dancing now and the piper has been paid Ten Considering and reconsidering I perceive My reality becoming that part I believe And seeing believing I come to see forever As now as how it is not when then but whenever It may be as always now as it was never then Eleven I can only be now since that is all I know how To be though still I try to be forever till when I see how I can never be anytime but now Which any way you look at it is better than then Circumnavigating by not going anywhere Twelve Never mind forever it is only now again This moment of transcendence within the in between The moment within which all other moments remain Hopeful fruitful and pregnant with possibility Whenever they say forever now is what they mean Thirteen The sharp edge of eternity comes sudden and soon And the only cure for our disease is being now Because now is forever and becomes everywhere And because I am here now I am already there Then believe it or not when forever I will be +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX