Life Is A Great Adventure/ I Never Quite Had

LIFE IS A GREAT ADVENTURE/ I NEVER QUITE HAD Life is a great adventure I never quite had The great distance The going out to conquer in the long space The facing of the villains and evil The fighting through the pain and suffering to the greatest victory All this was never mine My adventure was quiet inside A long loneliness with words An inner searching for a dream I could not create I missed so much And conquered nothing and no one I did love I did find a way of giving in my own small way To my people But I was not much in the great order of things No great adventurer no great hero Life was nonetheless I suppose My own small adventure Going on and on as I do now Dreams and more dreams Words and more words The music of a page The inner distance too ever receding And the world-to- come deep in question And the adventure of just being here In the unknowing of the everyday And the uncertain steps going on and on Until all will be terribly changed And nothing but the silence remain.