Opportunity My soup is getting cold And my dogs are pretty old But a pretty good cook After all and when I look Around at hounds I see Timeless snouts smile back at me To say we are OK Having been may as well be Who having seen a lot See more than you may have thought Our curiosity More intact in fact than we May realize sometimes Seeing you sniff out your rhymes Still so many to find We may be old but we know Before going is gone After all that has gone on To go on going so We do but know you do too Knowing we know from you These hounds around me remind Me how we got this far Take this opportunity They say and I agree All we are now is our best Having been all the rest And having been blessed this way Paradoxically Until we are not we are Too curious to die Say my timeless hounds and I Sniff out this rhyme to say After all the rest of it: Since we are anyway May we make the best of it Steven Curtis Lance