When Some say they feel we were deceived By those who taught us what They thought they had to and believed Some do but I do not Themselves deceived they could not know And none of them could see Not curious enough to grow They never would be free They thought they did but did not know Too careful to begin I think they meant well even though They shut me out from in Though not intending to deceive They did as they were told But could not see could not believe At any age too old Now I see they were afraid then Of our asking when and They made us wait but God knows when And now I understand They simply could not simply be And thought it better to Avoid too much reality So this they did and do They did the best they could with such Assumptions as they had Though their presumptions cost us much And some of us went mad But through the madness I survived What others had to miss And here at last I have arrived At now in spite of this And I forgive them all now as I hope for better days Though I remember how it was I always have always And that was then and this is now As that is always then And now as then I wonder how But now is always when +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX