I. Sunset Sunset haunts yet my eyes want to rise Seeing myself on the shelf of a cloud Aloud in the silent sky As another turn of the wheel goes by And the sun goes down uptown And down as back and forth across the dark It is I who am the spark I am the sun because I am the one All I have and all I need to be Not alone I am with me Myself and I and in good company Being who can do this now Somehow and it will be surprising when Like Icarus I fall but rise again To be nothing if not to be The phoenix has nothing on me II. Tough but Not Enough The tougher they talk The more afraid they are I can tell Those who would judge me Who chose to begrudge me Would do well To learn the longer They resist the stronger I will be They bluster and balk Persisting I insist Like a star Tough but not enough Too frightened to be free Scared of me III. Turning Forward When I pray I say "please no more trouble" for I have had enough nor need I any more Then it comes anyway but unlike before I know what to look forward to when behind Me is the fear I lost when it cost my mind Something lost but found that I am forward bound What was is no more now for then has gone by How I live on when because I will not die Till good and ready still then I hold steady Turning but not turning back learning as I Turn that forward is the only way I learn Making the best of it as I take my turn Turning I learn by trouble now and then But learning I turn forward then again +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXIV