Consider November

-- This one is for my little buddy. It's a little Dr. Seuss, but who doesn't love Dr. Seuss, right? --

"This November"

This November
You will be fine
You really will be
It's a fact

This November
Thanksgiving will occur
As it always does
And you will be thankful

Thankful for time
Thankful for giant periods of time
Months and months of time
And November

You'll be thankful
For November

In November
There might be harder things
Things other than
What you're dealing with now
Problems that are perfect
Because they're different
Different than the problems
You're being plagued with now
Those problems haven't even been born with
But you'll welcome them
Welcome new, exciting conflicts
When they appear
In November

This November
There will be new songs you love
There will be movies to see
There will be birthdays to celebrate
There will be gorgeous autumn weather
There will be great times
With new people

Just think of that
Think of that wonderful phrase

'New People'

Some of them will be nasty
Horrible people
But some of them will be fantastic
Either way
They'll be new

Brand new people
All over your life
This November

In six short months
You will have passed summer
Gone through June
Skated through July
With beaches
With bathing suits
With brilliant memories
And before you know it
Crying will be a thing of the past

The last thing you'd expect
To wake up and find yourself
Not trying to stay in bed
That sensation
Will have crept up on you
And you'll think to yourself

Wow
Is it already November?
Did I really make it to November?
And you will
You will have made it

So I'm asking for this
And just this
I'm asking you
To consider November

Consider that it's there
It's sitting right there
Six months away
Just waiting for you
To make you okay

It's the finish line
Right in sight
But unlike a finish line
It's not an end
It's the end of something
But the beginning
Of a million other things

So when your breath is cut off
And you shut down again
And nothing your friend says
Can make things better
When cliches and the hope
Of tomorrow being another day
Fails to make okay or delay your pain

Consider November
Just consider it
That's all

A consideration
Of a nearby time
It might make you fine
At least for today
At least

Until November