Captain Fantastic

I always like to read the comics first
And have dessert at any time I please
Appreciating life's gifts and graces
A little of the best before the worst
Enjoying my health despite my disease
And through these rose-colored glasses I see
This half-empty glass looks half-full to me

No one believes me but soon I will win
This race (which while absurd is not so bad)
No time like now to be and to begin
To do such duty destiny demands
As scary as it is as it places
The possible in improbable hands
Which have not learned the concept of defeat

I want to be Captain Fantastic now
The time has come for me to rise and soar
And although lacking laurel leaves to be
If not the laureate of the elite
The Laureate of the Mad anyhow
Who has lived a lot to live a lot more
And to bring smiles to serious faces

The spacetime fabric stretches elastic
So that an old dog might yet have his day
As Laureate of the Mad anyway

Look out world: here comes Captain Fantastic

+Steven Curtis Lance



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