Three Things About Fate I Escaping from the noise To find my latter equipoise And finding myself free I like to be in harmony Having learned the hard way Otherwise would rather not be Would not could not be me Any other way anyway Than harmoniously Being transcendental Seeing incoincidental Patterns in the beat of Life to feel the rhythm of love Learning rhymes of times and Seasons reasons to understand In their reality The meanings in the in between So knowing what they mean Forgetting what I knew Remembering what I forgot I learned a thing or two I got to know by going through It doing as I do What I thought I could not But being tougher than I thought Now I know how and who To be myself in harmony II Nothing happens until Its time when it will Not until then because When it will it does When it comes time for It then but not before The first thing about fate I know is to wait Keep my eyes open and Hope to understand As happening to be Who it happens to The second thing is to Decide what to do How to be as I see What happens to me The third not to worry Be in no hurry A journey not a race On through time and space To see what comes but goes Knowing no one knows Happening to be To be happening too III I never go anywhere Because I am already there However I am to know Who I am wherever I go And so I am where I mean To be within the in between Here I am and I am glad Now having had the trouble I have had On my own to find myself alone With maybe what may not be known At least by me but I am here to see There were places that were bad I have been where I have been sad And in them all I went mad By degrees but none of these Were anything compared to this Afterlife this final kiss Making up for what was taken When I was shaken because mistaken I thought I knew what we never do I learned the hard way but got through Somehow to now where I feel free to be By going nowhere my being there Through the middle of nowhere to everywhere Steven Curtis Lance