At the Turning of the Year Here I am for better or worse Turning through the universe Looking up from down on the ground Turning around and around But learning from it I have found How I have to spin to win And so now I do it again Having no choice anyway But finding my voice on the way Knowing how from having been Around somehow to now from then Through new years and new birthdays To be between now and always Never dreaming that I would Ever make it or that I could Turn out to be understood As good do well survive arrive Strangely changingly alive Another year older but here Through the darkness through the fear But dreams though not admitted to As ever dreamed still come true Dreams never dared to dream will do What they will as they come through The turning come around to be Looking up from down like me So here I am for better now Having spun and won somehow What I learned though I was turning To go who come returning For another turn at learning What I am to learn from what Turns out to be to be or not Another year older but Here at the turning of the year Steven Curtis Lance