The School Of Staying Alive

The cowboy and the spaceman
Need to get along these days,
Learn to give each other room
To live in their own ways,
To believe in the way they see things,
To behave as they believe
And to have their yarn respected
In the tapestry we weave.
There are many kinds of creatures
With an instinct to survive:
Every one is a natural teacher
In the school of staying alive.

His trouble with the red man
Goes back a long, long way,
But the natives made him welcome
When the cowboy came to stay -
Didn't send him an invitation,
Didn't know he would stay so long,
Didn't think his fallen angels
Would try to teach them right from wrong.
From the first they believed in sharing
With any man who could survive:
Every one is a natural teacher
In the school of staying alive.

The native is the father,
The cowboy is the son,
The spaceman is the holy ghost
And yet these three are one
In the eyes of an untouched virgin,
In the heart of the Magdalene,
In the hands of the lesbian witches
We betrayed and called unclean
And to every kind of creature
With an instinct to survive:
Every one is a natural teacher
In the school of staying alive.

Indecision can result when the head is disconnected from the heart. Bad decisions can result when the head is fooled by appearances and false representations. Guilt and regret can result when we second-guess the decisions in our past. The lesson of Justice is to weigh matters in the heart until we feel a centeredness, then know, without regrets, that we are making the best decision we can.

Keyword: Balance