for Alexander and his Stylistics Class at Aklan Catholic College in Kalibo in Aklan in The Philippines I Not quite sure of heaven though quite so of no hell I might not be right but I am anyway Coming from there now knowing how it was not here Being here between there and then to do as well As I can before tomorrow after yesterday Here and now where and when I am to do today Not quite sure forever though quite so of here however Where it seems to me the thing to do is be Today the best I can transcending cant and creed That I never wanted haunting all I ever need When I am being here now not to be in fear Past at last regretting not forgetting to forget Letting go and getting it getting on with it Not quite sure forever though quite so of now (or never) II A lot may come between later and now Life happens and because it does is how It is with us we never know but go On with the show as all we ever know In it together we may as well be kind But I for one of many find it fun To find out as I go like anyone Who learns not to try to control the role But face and embrace my part with my heart Whether or not it may make sense to my mind I take my chance as Steven Curtis Lance The role of a lifetime so on with the show III Eating and excreting through their fleeting folly here The fearful and uncheerful the frumpy and the grumpy Go through their motions by emotions dying of fear The folly of their fleeting their bleating and their cheating Is how they feel that everyone now must be afraid The way they are though solid be so stolid be so staid Somehow in their unreason in their mad season they Feel they should be in charge of things and this brings me to say I refuse their yesterday as I choose my today An open mind by hope may find what one unkind may miss Something beautiful so dutiful I tell you this Between us and I mean us we they have not made afraid: Refuse to be these people who by steeple or by rote Insist now we must choose them just refuse them and go vote Steven Curtis Lance