What I take is what I bring In the give and take of it In my turning I have learned It is what I make of it What I spent and what I earned That is real around the wheel Becoming understanding By being undemanding Being in it if not of As now turns out from never Wondering about it all In the fall as wonderful As whatever ever was For the rest of it because As I make the best of it I recall it all and yet I remember to forget Mindfully to never mind Letting go to leave behind Anything lesser than love When what then is whatever What forever means to me Is to outlive time to be Always being always now Always seeing how somehow As the ever of my what As whatever I have got In the give and take of it It is what I make of it As now turns out forever Nothing and yet everything What I take is what I bring +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXIII