"You can tell somebody I was like you / And gave you this poem for your birthday"

For Teddy 21 August MMX Teddy my fellow traveler through time My fellow seeker for the paradigm And for the pattern of reality Trying to figure out what it might mean As we have wondered why but found out how As we have wondered so we wonder still Adventurers alongside all the way Thank you for being a best friend to me My fellow wanderer wondering why But finding out how these two decades now Of this our connectedness as we find Someone to listen when no one else will Someone to talk to about what to do A partner in the shared life of the mind As well as my son so that I have two And not only one so that I have you Who though you might not realize it are As transcendental as a rising star Ascending constantly and steadily Rising but remaining in equipoise Lighting the sky for those orbiting by Finding the center in the in between Where I who see you rise know what I see In a world of people who do not care I see one who does and is always there Alongside me when I have need of you And I see you love me as I love you So that we are alongside everywhere I see humankind in you being kind Humanness informed by humanity I see balance among the many joys Awaiting those who now discover you To be as fascinating as I knew You to be in your long ago with me In the incunabulum of us as We got off to a good start and we grew In our Lancean specificity You shot me for the cover of a book Or two just as I look just as you took Care of me as I once took care of you Then when my life was in the in between Suspended like a floating leaf in fall To land in your hand recalled by your call And because of you I return again As how it is remembers how it was While wondering about how it will be And we turn to return with what we learn We leave but we never leave us behind And always say I love you when we go Turning as we go to learn to return We turn but turning do not turn away Because we turn together through it all Till someday we who have wondered will know And if someday somebody should bother To ask you something about your father Something of you as something of me too And if you wonder what on earth to say Not that they will ask but in case they do You can tell somebody I was like you And gave you this poem for your birthday +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX