Let’s Dance

Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest places.

This one emerges at the end of the TV series “11.22.63” based on the Stephen King book, a story of time travel and dead presidents. In the final scene is a sappy little poem read by one of the characters. One of those simple ways of saying something that helps one move forward.

It’s not in the book. It was written for the show and apparently King tweaked it to help wrap up the concept of accepting the cards you were dealt and making the best of it.

It is essentially “it is what it is”, you’ve survived.

Now live in spite of it all.

We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in.

Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light.

Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty.

We have been given pain to be astounded by joy.

We have been given life to deny death.

We did not ask for this room or this music.

But because we are here, let us dance.

- Stephen King & and Bridgett Carpenter