"The process of life in a single word"

Yes

Each day its world each life its universe
Which may turn upside down at any time
Where everything changes in a heartbeat
Often for better and sometimes for worse

Fortune can turn in shadowed pantomime
To prowl down an unfamiliar street
Where possibilities are limitless
And all one has to pay is to say yes

I want to live in the affirmative
At least I would like to try it awhile
After so long in its alternative
They say it takes less energy to smile

At least in that way a conservative
When it comes to shown emotion and such
I never had the optimistic touch
But I would live well if I am to live

Nor do I think I am asking too much
Where possibilities are limitless
If only here today or so they say
Since I am here I will stay and say yes

Yes to the future and yes to the past
To the only gift which I can afford
This present always opened first and last
The process of life in a single word

And all one has to pay is to say yes

+Steven Curtis Lance



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