The Book of Now for the who of verse 15 1 There is no future there is no past Only what presently is at last As at first and at best as at worst 2 All I know is what I saw and see I find out how in the book of now On the seesaw of reality 3 So I might as well enjoy it when As unremembered as unrehearsed I see it is always now again See as I saw this natural law 4 As now and again it always was As it always will be just because Whenever it is is now somehow 5 Only what presently is at last As at first and at worst as at best Here is no future now is no past 6 Up in the east and down in the west There is only here where there is now And then again it is always when Now is what is doing what it does 7 To wait is too late for forever Now is what is never mind the rest The way it is is now or never 8 All I ever had I gave away Or was taken from me who can say I might be mistaken about what Was given taken or I forgot 9 I just know it happened but not why But not why not put another way I found out how in the book of now Lost it then when now is what I got In its place in time and space or not 10 And just as now it got confusing Then but now I have stopped refusing To see how it is and dare to say I see I was imprisoned by fear Then and there but not when where is here 11 In an ascetic aesthetic life With no anaesthetic with no wife On the edge of Occam's razor I With no one else now to blame but me On the edge of love here live or die 12 Riding the edge of life like a knife In only my own propinquity On the edge of light to be a spark Looking for another in the dark 13 Now is what is doing what it does As it always will be always was Up in the east and down in the west Through up and down to the in between 14 In the riddle of the middle there I am within the in between where Now at when and here at where appear To be time and space enough for me Not to regret it but to get it 15 When I see now what I see is here Where those here and now know what I mean Who find out how in the book of now The way it is is now or never Who get it and do not regret it 16 The time and the place for time and space Is now as time and space will allow To wait is too late for forever Because whenever it is is now 17 Up in the east and down in the west All I know is what I see and saw Down in the west and up in the east All I know is what I saw and see 18 There is no future there is no past As much as I might like there to be Now is what is never mind the rest Not to forget but remember how Not to regret it but to get it 19 Only what presently is at last On the seesaw of reality With nothing but now for now at least I find out how in the book of now 20 So I might as well enjoy it when I open the book of now again +Steven Curtis Lance Ash Wednesday Copyright MMXI