This Too Shall Pass

This to Shall Pass - Danny Schmidt

Things change fast

But 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 last

Cause like a cancer in your body

It all just goes too fast

We think too big

We think our self is one whole thing

And we claim that this collection

Has a name and is a being

But deep inside

When every cell divides

It sets upon the rule that states

Self-interest is divine

Cancer too

Lives by this golden rule

That you must do unto the others

As the others unto you

All for the best

Cause that's all the life accepts

And so we kill it like a buffalo

With awe and with respect

Don't ask God

Just ask the sky

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

And 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

And 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 that always felt too high

And then he fell too low

And so he called

All the wise men to the hall

And begged them for a gift

To end the rises and the falls

And here's the thing

They came back with a ring

It was simple and was plainly

Unbefitting of a king

Engraved in black

It had no front or back

But there were words around

The band that said

Just know this too shall pass