Careful!
This isn’t your account balance!
This is the balance you need to practice for walking on this rope.
This thin rope stretched tight between birth and death.
The rope that tests whether you cope or mope.
This rope that is called life.
For while walking on life, you look both sides.
You know you can fall on either.
You know that there would be no guides
When you are on the show.
You could either ride up or slide!
This is the balance you take between food and exercise,
the balance you take between idiocy and being wise.
The balance you take between your shyness and glaring eyes.
and the balance you take between your fall and your rise.
Because you know where you will land.
If you slip off this rope, and you don’t know,
If it would be a soft landing on sand,
Or if you would land on rock.