Paradise Valley Rhapsody I At the wall No coming back From the fall Down through the crack After all Come from I guess Nothing less Than nothingness Nothing more After before Written on Water and gone Except for The scars you see Left on me Like acid then But I saw when I was in The in between What I mean By having been In it got Out of it what Becomes true What coming through Comes to me That comes to be What I do Sent and meant to Hope that you Will read it and Understand II Marisol came in from out And with her dusty snout Poked and joked about with me Spoke solidarity That is what we spoke about As beings glad to be Seeing the reality Of empathy no doubt About it here we are Coming in from out this far Whatever it may mean Our way out is in between Us in our empathy Being universally Our time is never up For forever fills the cup And though we go we go On going even so Seeing coming in from out Is what being is about III May I be here Year after year Not ending gone Transcending on Up through the fear When it got worse I knew it would Get better when I got through then To now again I knew I could Be understood On my way in The only way Out anyway Not forever But whatever This however Or how for now Is how somehow If not quite what I might have thought I understand The universe Written on sand And if from dust To dust I must Be I become What I have come Through to and from That I may be And maybe do What there is to Up through the fear May I be here Steven Curtis Lance