"Now is not never now is forever"

Arriving Fifty-five years alive and older than I ever Dreamed it to be possible for me to be Nor do I feel it somehow I who once said "never Trust anyone over thirty" but never does Not seem now because I am who I was Even though a quarter of a century past: Now is not never now is forever I have gone on but I have not left me behind Still having my improbable child's body A legacy of my idiot savanthood Still having my still more improbable mind All more or less accepted if not understood And do I trust myself? I believe I do at last: Now is not for striving now is for arriving Myself and I have been through a lot together It has been very strange and subject to change Encouraging times through discouraging weather Like a red eye flight through a very long night But I can see the sunrise from my window now As arriving I have a good feeling somehow: And here I am world! Are you reading me? When the world seems it is ending is when it begins For me anyway just to get my attention And the one who knows what goes around comes back around wins A new world a day of intention and invention As the closer I look the further I see: Now is not never now is forever Now is not for striving now is for arriving +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX