"Try to enjoy it no matter what"

Circus Train

In our awkward puzzling position
Life on earth can seem a circus but
Remains never without its reward
Try to enjoy it no matter what
As the temporary condition
Which it manifestly is and must
Be before we return to the dust

Until then our circus train chugs toward
The summit of our humanity
Where whatever our idea might be
Of that which is to come after this
Awkward puzzling position we know
To one we know not where we might go

Through trial to transcendental bliss
Or maybe just an end to it all
Whatever follows when petals fall
But never neglect the here and now
This moment itself for its own sake
And try to have fun with it somehow

Because never having died before
Life on earth becomes an act of faith
A very good chance for us to take
And who could ask for anything more
Than to live well and laugh last at death?

Life on earth can seem a circus but
Personally I believe and trust
That you and I are much more than dust
But if to the dust we must return
Let us live and love and laugh and learn

Try to enjoy it no matter what

+Steven Curtis Lance



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