"This Too Shall Pass" by Danny Schmidt
Well, things change fast.
This too shall pass.
Better carve it on your forehead
Or tattoo it on your ass.
'Cause who can tell
When the clock strikes twelve
If today's become tomorrow,
Or if it's all just gone to hell?
My friend makes rings,
She swirls and sings.
She's a mystic in the sense
That she's still mystified by things,
But scared to ask,
How can nothing seem to last?
Because like a cancer in your body
It all just goes to fast.
We think too big,
We think ourself as one whole thing,
And we claim that this collection
Has a name and is a being.
But deep inside
When every cell divides,
Well, it sets upon the rule that states,
"Self-interest is divine."
And cancer too
Lives by this golden rule
That you must do unto the others
As the others unto you.
All for the best,
Because it's all that life accepts.
And so we kill it like the buffalo:
With awe, and with respect.
Well, don't ask God.
Just holler at the sky,
'Cause she'll tell it to you plainly
In the clouds that whisper by.
And praise the shapes,
And then praise the way they change.
And they'll teach you not to pray to light,
Without you pray to rain.
So I pray to hands,
I pray to needs,
And I pray to blades of grass
To find forgiveness in the weeds.
But as for health,
I just never did believe,
So I never prayed myself
Except to those that prayed for me.
The story goes,
Or the way that I was told,
There was a king who always felt too high
And then he fell too low.
And so he called
All the wise men to the hall,
And he begged them for a gift
To end the rises and the falls.
But here's the thing,
They came back with a ring.
It was simple and was plainly
Unbefitting of a king.
Engraved in black,
Well it had no front or back.
But there were words around the band
That said, "Just know this too shall pass."
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