Threescore and Then One More Having already lived threescore Years I am ready given one more To bet it gets better as I Live it up before having to die Having lived it down I get it Now whatever was then forget it Because what is to be is not Yet and what was is what I forgot What is now that I am living Not what then but I am forgiving Given the chance forgiven and Forgiving living to understand Understanding expanding my Mind to find more than I lost before Seeing us being as we are In this together if from afar Finding myself in humankind Arranging itself changing its mind Freeing ourselves to figure out Who we are and what to do about Us as we find ourselves somehow No matter what time the clock may say Whenever we are always now Tomorrow never comes anyway But here I am threescore and then One more to bet now I get it how It gets better for having been Earning my way learning the hard way Yesterday turning me away Became tomorrow that came today Steven Curtis Lance