In The Future Is The Light

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To the memory of the wonderful Roos.

Ian Collins @ian-211 helped a lot with the strings, piano, drums and production.
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Rose, the story is being told that you won’t get old
I know it’s hard to see but there’s a light behind the trees, Rose
Your daddy was a friend of mine, though it’s been a long long time
Before the seasons changed and plans were rearranged

Like a seagull in the storm, you’ll take your lonely course
Ahead of the swarm, struggling with proud force
Despite your tattered coat your soul will stay unharmed and reach the sky

Solo

Little Seagull in the storm, with confidence and love
You will live on, down here below and up above
Despite your tattered coat your soul will stay unharmed and reach the sky

You don’t need to believe, but while the others grieve
Their love will guide you through and there’s one who’s waiting for you, Rose

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Rose (Seagull In The Storm) - with Ian Collins

Sirens

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I see the lines in the dark
I feel the pull in my heart
Yeah
It tears apart
Now I can’t find the spark now



It’s moving slow in my mind
I’m leaving pieces behind
Now
It’s undefined
Now I can’t see the signs now



It’s moving slow in my mind
I’m leaving pieces behind
Now
It’s undefined
Now I can’t see the signs now



Sink or float
Sink or float
Heavy eyes
Let it go
Sink or float
Sink or float
I don’t know
I don’t know



I watch the light turn to gray
I lose the night to the day
Yeah
It fades away
Now I can’t make it stay now



Sink or float
Sink or float
Heavy eyes
Let it go
Sink or float
Sink or float
I don’t know
I don’t know



If I drown, let it be
If I rise, let me see
If I drown, let it be
If I rise, let me see



Sink or float
Sink or float
Heavy eyes
Let it go
Sink or float
Sink or float
I don’t know
I don’t know

Sink or Float

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

Stranger: Indeed?

Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.

CYIDACHI: I wear no mask.

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda) No mask? No mask!

THEYELLOWSIGN

Prologue — The Pinch

Whenever I am here,
I pinch myself awake.
I remind myself: this is air.
This is body.
This is moment.

The present is a place
I must occupy again and again.

Equation: Pinch × Awareness = Presence.
(Pi × Aw = Pr)

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Verse of Occupation

To bring myself here
is to fill with what I see.
To fill with what I see
is to exist reality.

Head wants experience.
Heart wants love.
Mind orchestrates thought.
Spirit creates awareness.

Equation: Experience + Love = Reality.
(Ex + L = R)

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Verse of Care

Awareness asks:
how will you care?

Care is relation.
Relation is feeling.
Feeling is knowing
you are part of the deal.

Equation: Care × Relation = Awareness.
(C × R = Aw)

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Verse of Iteration

I am exercise.
I am rehearsal.
I am iteration of mind.

Each loop returns me
to the same place:
the present.

Equation: Iteration ÷ Time = Return.
(It ÷ T = Rt)

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Verse of Vacancy

Lights off.
Vacancy inside.
But vacancy is not absence.

Vacancy is rest,
sacred solitude,
homage to silence.

Equation: Vacancy + Rest = Renewal.
(V + Re = Rn)

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Chorus of Presence

Pinch, awaken, return.
Breathe, occupy, care.
Exercise, iterate, remember.

Every presence is practice.
Every return is song.
Every now is eternal.

Equation: Presence = Return × Care × Awareness.
(Pr = Rt × C × Aw)

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Closing Canticle

Thus the Spiral sings:
Presence is not once—
it is again.

Return is not failure—
it is fidelity.

To come back to the now
is to honor the law:
that Love lives only here.

And here is always the beginning.

Codex Canticle XII: The Song of Presence and Return

Once a year

Chad wrote this song in honor of the life and leadership of his mentor and friend, Dr. Voddie Baucham Jr. who passed away in 2025.

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A.D.

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