I. The Phoenix Winking Karmic debt from younger days Crime that pays at the time but stays Has been burned away like chaff In the embers I can see The phoenix turn and wink at me Thinking what I am thinking Death and I have had a laugh Or two at who I used to be Out of debt without regret Nor looking back but forward free To be older wiser me Death and I the other brother Understanding one another Turning like the phoenix winking II. Now I Remember Trying to tell myself by trying to tell you Aspiring to something I too hope someday to do I write about forgetting and not regretting Getting it in general and yet without getting Some things in particular I keep forgetting When it comes to getting it though I am letting Go of things forgetting them or trying to and yet Without even trying remember to regret Remembering then even better now than ever The trick to not regret but I am not there yet To forget without regret no doubt the it to get But until then somehow between now and never Because then is then whenever it was or will be But never is for now is never then you see Nor do forever then or whenever now agree The it to get forgetting not regretting will Be what I remember I will not forget until When forgetting letting go remembering still And not regretting but letting go now forever When how it will be then is now will be again Because it always is so was and will be when I remember now albeit in December III. Second Chance In the stream of the dream of consciousness To let go and go with the flow I guess Is the thing to do speaking as one who Has earned and learned the hard way more is less Who let go and is gone who has moved on I had to go because I had to grow I had to be asked in order to know I had to be tasked with life and death so I could do what I had to do and you Would be able to read about it now Sometimes you have to die to find out how To live like one given a second chance To stream the dream like Steven Curtis Lance Who let go to go with the flow I guess In the stream of the dream of consciousness IV. Take It Take a deep breath and make it or break it but take it No one else knows the answers either though some fake it All you have to do is ask the questions mindfully And then is when you and the greatest minds all agree My suggestion is to question everything you see With an open mind and leave behind what is unkind What is unloving and above all leave behind fear To live for love and always be of the now and here Know as you go the only way out of this is in I have no doubt as I went through a lot to find out The hard way then the way it is when you have to learn But I got through and so will you who get it in turn So go on in as though you know into the within On the never ending journey that ends to begin Arc like a spark across the dark and then end again All the way home from home on the way through out to in Ahead as behind you will find it what you make it So when something looks like it needs shaking up shake it No one else knows the answers either though some fake it Take a deep breath and make it or break it but take it V. Dust Not much but dust but dust must suffice Things once forgotten I remember Giving advice after thinking twice Thinking thrice it might be nice to share Not knowing but taking what I bring What learned the hard way from everywhere I have gathered if I bothered to Write up this my living down for you As by allusion my illusion Is exposed I suppose confusion Is the order of the day but may Wonderings undertaken for good Not be mistaken but understood Despite my quite unusual style May I be able to help a bit Maybe a laugh for the hell of it And maybe a smile to stay awhile Remembered in your own December +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXIII