"Here now as I am at the edge of me"

Happy I want to be happy just like you do Like everyone else in the world does too Everyone wants to be happy I know All of us seem to agree about this It hurts to live but we hurt to live though Time will play tricks while we wait for the kiss Of that little sprinkle of fairy dust We dream about (since in our dust we must) Of that little sparkle of magic we Tingle to when we sense the presence of A member of our mortal family And sense the possibility of love I suppose it could be we are only So alone with ourselves we get lonely For someone other someone not the same But we try not to be too distinctive So the same someone finds no one to blame Alienation and our instinctive Fight-or-flight play out invertedly in An endgame of just waiting to begin For treasure island exiles washed ashore For whom the tide returns to ask for more I want to be happy just like I was Or just like I remember as a child But cannot be sure which is which because One was the hope of happiness to come Then one what came instead the distance from One to the other one unreconciled Though neither one believes in Santa Claus Childhood is gone and adulthood goes fast And no one ever told us it would be That the worst thing at present is the past In spite of all those memories we see I might as well save the future for last Here now as I am at the edge of me Like everyone else in the world does too I want to be happy just like you do +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX