Ways and Means

Cousins
 I'm as the world forever spinning
 Rekindled by the early rising sun
 I'm as the road that's ever winding
 A never ending journey just begun.
 And the wheel turns in my heart and in my soul
 The fire burns ever in my head
 While others come with lanterns
 That will last throughout the night
 To follow in the ways where we have led.
 She's as the river ever flowing
 As constant as the Greenwich clock at noon
 She's as the sea that's ever rolling
 A high spring tide that rises with the moon.
 And today is much the same
 As any other day has been
 And I think about tomorrow
 And while there's not much that I need
 To take me further on
 There are still things that I borrow.
 They are as the wheel forever turning
 The heart that gives an athlete strength to win
 They are as the fire that's ever burning
 The flame that lights the lamp of life within.