"what a ride"

New Stars Born aesthetic or so they say Never athletic anyway Worn ascetic along the way Of the fray on the way to die Always the hard way never less Enslaved in sanctuaries of The rich for what I saved for love Enduring the hypocrisy Of those who would diminish me Would hold me down by gold to crown Their own illegitimacy But I escaped from those who gaped To swallow up and finish me To take the rest of what they raped So I took poverty as far As I could go where those who knew Me were and knew I had to know You few believing I could fly Or knew I had to leave to try To do what I thought I ought to In the thrall of a falling star And I was caught up in the sky Worth staying for nevertheless Becoming one one wonders why About and one who wonders too When night is falling calling out And bringing in what night has brought What some are praying for I guess New stars to rise then each alone But only lonely as we choose To shine while falling down or not To fall with nothing left to lose Though costing everything at last The poor pay more the rich pay less The hard way of humanity But we all fall down slow or fast Up in the air with naught to care For anymore but falling for The sake of being then and there A descending trajectory Where here and now is everywhere When now is how it is to be On velvet blue we shine unknown Out of the blue but know it then As seeking finding what was sought Tonight to own what light has shown We remember to forget when Not knowing why but learning how We turn out in the burning now New stars as it turns out we are Taking pleasure and leaving pain Forgetting to remember and Returning through the velvet blue Burning now between me and you As we do how to learn and who To burn what we are each a star We shine for now if not again As close as we are far away One reaching for another hand Calling out to us as we fall Born aesthetic or so they say Maybe falling and maybe small Never athletic anyway We take the greatest fall of all Maybe not the brightest ever Worn ascetic along the way Born to shine from now to never Throughout tonight into today Now at least if not forever As though just so but what a ride New stars though falling calling me Who calling join you in the tide Of falling stars who after all Though falling see how now can be As we fall to the other side New stars though falling calling me New stars though falling falling free +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXI