I As I exist persistently Being I might as well be Seeing what is and what is not Knowing from not what to avoid Not to validate the void Outgrowing what is not for what As I exist persistently I persist because I see What is and what is not for me I learned the hard way to let go Of what was not but did so I know to be from not to be I am now as I see how As I exist persistently II The dogs undertake to make excavations Deepening their investigations To it and at it dig deeper into What only the doggedly dogly know of A mystery beast a mouse at least Under the side of the house to the east That knows what to do and the dogs know it too Mutuality of reality They can dig it and they do At it and to it and do it with love III Becoming an abstraction Traveling light today Subtraction and redaction Action and reaction Reduction and destruction An ending to begin I lost my mind to find me Let go left behind me What I lost but beginning To find myself winning Went on and I want to stay Gone where I am to be Unraveling I survived Reaction by action Dysfunction by distraction Traveling I arrived Now to my satisfaction By losing how I win My way out is in A Hi-Desert hideaway Steven Curtis Lance