astra per aspera: stars through difficulty

A Clean Sheet of Paper on a Brand New Day astra per aspera: stars through difficulty 1 A clean sheet of paper on a brand new day As we begin again in our usual way Ascending through unusualness on our way to Being as we are and becoming as we do 2 As by happy consequence of consciousness we are One and all a sun as all and each a star Who put our best foot forward even when we fall Each the rising star we are if brittle though brightly 3 Stars arriving astra per aspera day by day Though no one wants to hear how we struggle night by nightly Through difficulty as the stars we are who shine to stay They say they know already as they struggle even so 4 Though no one wants to say for fear of going too far No one knows ahead of now of the surprise of how With how somehow forgotten to be gotten like why The becoming of our being seen if not understood 5 Known mainly as the growing pains by which we know we try Or maybe pains is not the word because becoming feels so good So terribly exciting as we just let go because we must and fly Though we feel unsteady or a bit unready for the sky 6 And we may not know how but we know about now These coltish adolescent awkward stars we are just As we are to rise uptown and not fall down and not know how But stars we are and those who say we go too far can eat stardust 7 Seeing it being our because freeing night from day Just to see how it will be and if it must be how it was Now when no one knows how but then everyone does In our usual unusual though our ascending way 8 Each to be the star we are through difficulty then Through more possible todays again than we may ever know Being astra per aspera makes the night a long one when One way is found as wrong way round another way wound rightly 9 And round and round and bound to be wound tightly as we go For the turning and returning and the learning not to fall The only way to go is to go on with the show Because we are troupers are we not after all? 10 Fear falls because it fails to love when only love may rise In life to fall in love to turn from gravity to destiny And if we fall the only way is up when we have stars in our eyes Seeing what can be and freeing it to be by being you and me 11 Not anybody much at least I know I am who I think and if therefore I am then I will be and do Being and becoming stars we are with you to rise uptown Alongside and ascending not to fall and never backing down 12 One and all a sun as all and each a star Ascending through unusualness on our way to Being as we are and becoming as we do The consequential consciousnesses of me and you 13 As we begin again in our usual way Conscientious consciousnesses consciences clear Having learned the only time and place is now and here A clean sheet of paper on a brand new day +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX