"Out of the corner of my eye away but not too far"

Peripheral Vision Mental illness gnaws now around the margins of my mind Purposefully the way a rat gnaws just because it does In peripheral vision as the way how I go blind To what will be my just because as I forget what was In peripheral vision where the rat will still be kind In an autumn to remember there falling back to spring When you will see me still be me then as remembering What I forget you will remember that of me and yet I hope what you remember is the best of everything That you forget the rest the way the rat gnaws my regret At being temporary very grateful anyway To be at all though poor and small albeit in the fall The rat gnaws by the laws of nature as it does its thing And I am here remembering still as I do today Despite myself and everything to rise a fallen star When what I learned from life was love as our thing that we do In peripheral vision then to see you there for me Who care for me who dare to be with me the way you are Out of the corner of my eye away but not too far Forgetting what was false as we remember what is true In peripheral vision there where I remember you +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXI