I. How They Said My children's parents had colorful grandmas I would say the way one and the other one was Eccentric egocentric problematic Though with a sense of humor ever ready to Stand in solidarity to steady who Needed it leaning on the meaning in between Up all night to be all right who took good care Of us understood right by having been right there Not for their didactic more dogmatic parts That spark though the dark of their love of family Now though they are dead lives how they said in our hearts II. Honey Bee Funny thing about us homo sapiens as we Apes of an apian and dizzying industry Get better by forgetting and by forgiving who Evolve a bit revolving if only fitfully And must do just because we are beings who must do: We get busy for the money like the honey bee Living paycheck to paycheck then checking back next week Again but then again keeping busy so to speak Always improving though never moving anywhere But upward hypothetically into thin air But to be a bee is but a metaphor for who Find they are and mindful being find what they must do With all their might do right to fight for if they must too And they are us evolving if only fitfully Dizzy for the money like the busy honey bee III. Sun Song Tan my tummy bronze my belly make me one with you O sun Let December yet remember one who has not yet begun Coming late but coming when becoming how I come to be Let me live forgiving now come then O sun and shine on me Let December yet remember one to get it nor forget Ember inextinguishable spark my dark beyond regret As dum spiro spero hopefully I breathe reality Through my skin into within the universe inside of who Never thought whatever brought forever now then how it does Tested by myself self-bested overthinking as I do When it seemed too simple then outsmarting myself as I was Hard for me to see reality as it was just because Warm my heart to be a part of you O sun at one with you Get me up and shake me from the cold of my complacency Take me make me one who has begun to be one who is free! +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXIII