Transcendence

When you have nothing to lose you have nothing to worry
About anymore and there is no reason to hurry
So people like me find ourselves living calmly content
Beyond having and holding profit and loss continent
Within the irreducible borders of our remains

*Accepting I have nothing I inherit everything

Beyond caring anymore past the passions pathos pains
Which spin the normal self in a personal tornado
Of ego up down round and round until away they blow
Like dry leaves in autumn when it is over just like me
In the end the fact I know this is that which makes me free

*Accepting I have nothing I inherit everything

Deep in my heart I have always known to let it all go
Is the only way to break free of the things which weigh me
Down prevent me hold me back my possessions betray me
The material world would bury me in its embrace
Smothering and entombing me in context held in place

*Accepting I have nothing I inherit everything

Very well then destiny take me: I let it all go
I must die to the earth if I would be born to the sky
The flower must dry away the seed must fall away to grow
This caterpillar would at last become a butterfly
Very well then destiny take me: I let it all go

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMV

Beautiful write Stevie. You are a butterfly!

Thank you, Rodger; that is all I ever wanted to be.

As I wrote in my poem Code Blue Butterfly, in the last two lines:

"No one will ever understand me live or die
That all I wanted was to be a butterfly"

Love,

+Stevie

BUTTERFLY KISSES

Embrace the wind and spread your wings
And settle not for lesser things.
Soaring to the greatest height
Graceful butterfly in flight.

With poet's heart and pilot's skill
You navigate with golden quill
The altitude that you achieve
Depends upon what you believe.

There is no ceiling on your sky.
No looking back, no asking why.
You've shed restrictions from your past.
Horizon bound from chrysalis cast.

Drawn toward the warming sun
Chase the light till you are done.
You brush my face, the nearest miss.
Release your pain, I feel your kiss.

RMB,OD 11/16/2005

Thank you, Rodger; your words are beautiful and resonate within my heart, as I know they are spoken from yours.

When I feel alone in the world, I discover I am not; this is a great blessing.

Thanks and love,

+Stevie

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.

More words of comfort...

...Be not afraid, I go before you always. Come, follow me, and I will give you rest....

I thought this was great!! Loved the ending...hmmm..another great write from a great poet.
msity..