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Heyday
A lifetime ago and a world away
I used to never know but always say
And I wish I knew then what I know tonight
Though even tonight I hardly know anything
If I could I would go back and make it right
Fixing what I left by what I might bring
Future to past anachronistically
Maybe make it better in the presently
Unfolding lotus of the situation
Imperfect it might be but liberation
By the pure potential of the bud in bloom
Is manifesting now inexorably
Blooming my maturity I am staying
Marching into April and thence into Maying
Straying along as imagination calls me
The sacrifice consuming me as I consume
Life's kisses as seducing it enthralls me
I feel like life forgives me
In spite of my not knowing much now or then
Even as it outlives me
Once is enough nor need I live again
Only to live still simply to remain
And though I suppose it could be arranged
To rise and to return however changed
All in all this present life is going well
Plenty more of this parade to pass daresay
A lifetime ago having struggled through hell
My heaven will be here and now my heyday
A lifetime ahead and a world underway
+Steven Curtis Lance
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