Thoroughgoingly Thankful With some ongoing ingoing and yes A little obsessively with a growing Reputation being thoroughgoing Unusually depressed usually With some thoroughgoing seriousness Left over from being German Lutheran Es ist was es ist I guess more or less With some thoroughgoing mysteriousness From having been more but then lesser-than An unusually unusual man Not for everyone I confess but I Sense we transcendentally identify Between us to see in the in between Each other like stars and to know what we mean Sparks through the dark our thoughts arc to the sky In German we say die Gedanken sind frei That thoughts are free or that they ought to be Though what I was taught does not seem free to me Our thoughts are free as stars as far as we Can see to wonder and that we do is why We understand us unusually I am thoroughgoingly thankful for you Wonderful who understand like you do There to share the sky I wonder under too Steven Curtis Lance