Love is What Goes On for Franziska I Thank you for getting me And for not forgetting me Thank you for letting me Get to be a part of who you are When I think about us We are let no one doubt us For always anyway We who after all will always be The ones who set us free Who fit our situation Get through insanity To our mutual liberation And having come this far With you with me all the way Franziska you and me Nothing pinks like our propinquity II When the tyrant dreams of war He hugs himself like a tyrannosaur His arms not quite around him But the darkness has already bound him Holds him fast in hate and fear It looks like the apocalypse is here I thought it would be bad but The plot is even worse than I had thought More apocalyptic and The star is going mad I understand I hope for cancellation The worst reality show on TV Making everybody mad Taking everything and making it sad Utterly mistakenly Everything shaken to conflagration A nation for sale to sell The show we know too well the show from hell III When everything is gone Love is what goes on Is not forgotten by Nor does it forget Someone who is and yet May not be someday Someone who may die But almost does not care Because love is there Having gotten to be Someone who like me May speak to you this way Out of yesterday For tomorrow to know I am even though By then it may be when Someday I find out What this was all about Maybe I may not Be where you may see but Into the unknown Someone anyway Between now or never Maybe forever But not to be alone One with everyone As we have always been With only love then All that mattered ever Love is what goes on Steven Curtis Lance

illustrated by the dedicatee