Transcendence

When you have nothing to lose you have nothing to worry
About anymore and there is no reason to hurry
So people like me find ourselves living calmly content
Beyond having and holding profit and loss continent
Within the irreducible borders of our remains

*Accepting I have nothing I inherit everything

Beyond caring anymore past the passions pathos pains
Which spin the normal self in a personal tornado
Of ego up down round and round until away they blow
Like dry leaves in autumn when it is over just like me
In the end the fact I know this is that which makes me free

*Accepting I have nothing I inherit everything

Deep in my heart I have always known to let it all go
Is the only way to break free of the things which weigh me
Down prevent me hold me back my possessions betray me
The material world would bury me in its embrace
Smothering and entombing me in context held in place

*Accepting I have nothing I inherit everything

Very well then destiny take me: I let it all go
I must die to the earth if I would be born to the sky
The flower must dry away the seed must fall away to grow
This caterpillar would at last become a butterfly
Very well then destiny take me: I let it all go

+Steven Curtis Lance



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