Interesting Times They said it was a Chinese curse But whatever it was is getting worse Living in interesting times When what is real is hard to feel sometimes Teaching me about timelessness Reaching out for reality in rhymes Like magic spells from long ago The things I learned the hard way on the go On going of the growing of The knowing that reality is love And what is not is meaningless Because it never really was at all After all but before the fall Enters into winter's uncertainties At the beginning of the end Of what never was in time to transcend When thoughts are free and so am I To say yes or no to these times that try I might as well be trying too Through the vanities of inanities Time for me to be timelessly To be what is real in reality I get this is what to get through If this is it to forget or regret I get this is the it I get Forgetting regretting and getting it Is not a curse and not Chinese But the unfolding of the universe Like I am too or trying to And if this is it I will be and do My best and let the rest go by Having said no to being saying yes Seeing love is nevertheless The meaning of things in the in between The lines where things are when they mean Within the in between of lines like these Steven Curtis Lance