Lessons Lessons return until they are learned Waiting on corners fated to be turned Down dark alleys where we have to go To deal with something real we have to know Insisting on persisting being There everywhere resisting not seeing Strange but true how change comes due and we Learn what we have to eventually But what is doing the teaching or What is it but what we are reaching for Down dark alleys of reality Where we have to go to grow being how Turning the corner then becomes now When some of us learn the hard way like me What we get from what does not forget Until we get it to get what we get But would not have known not being shown Having been shown not to be so alone For better or for worse as we thought In the universe maybe we are not Waiting on corners fated to be turned Lessons return until they are learned Steven Curtis Lance