"The existential asking place"

Now? Nothing is as bad as depression makes it seem Reality is never half so bad It feels like a nightmare although it is a dream Unconsciously afraid consciously sad The future was not bright for me Nor was the present right for me The past was left but gone How Else to go but to go on Now? Time of times in timeless flow Edge of the moving stream Of consciousness of time and space Beyond these as their transcendental grace The intersection of it all The point as great as it is small The human race turns over in its dream Of here and it is where The existential asking place Is and it is asking there Where everywhere is now so now I know Nothing is as bad as depression makes it seem The human race turns over in its dream And suffocates the sufferer As it were But if I should awaken tomorrow I might Be able to figure it out But am already having a nightmare tonight Which only awakens my doubt And yet having left the light on I see The past has left but gone To be Nothing was as bad as depression made it seem Reality was never half so sad It felt like a nightmare although it was a dream A point as great as it was small The intersection of it all And when I awakened I dreamed I had gone mad How Else to go but to go on Now? +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX