I Large carnivores on the floor at my feet Hi-Desert hounds who are bound to eat Any humankind found not to be kind But finding most of us mindful rest Here where they love me above all the best Should now become then someday again Somebody who gets depressed and yet blessed I want to remember this now lest I forget how I get it finally Somebody cares about me I see Seeing them being I too would be then Seeing somebody cares about me II Happy Fourth of July everyone And fifth sixth seventh through always too Though clearly we are not nearly done To know who we are so what to do Is a freethinking way to begin Feeling our independence as one Any out of many to be free Real independence depending on The interdependence of us who Depend on each other being when Seeing us there know where we are then Between us do what we mean to be Together whether or not we see Together is what we mean to me III Younger I was usually wrong Older with an unusually long Memory because still being now Till long enough to get it right somehow I do now and then having learned when Having turned out wrong but having earned then The right to try again who turn out When having been wrong to be right about Now and how I do it is to free A possibility through a question Being right now about to find out Seeing what is by freeing what can be No doubt about it sometimes a doubt Becomes an existential suggestion If there is no answer where to find Out if in doubt is through an open mind Steven Curtis Lance