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Over the Wall
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
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I



Out there the dogs are barking
Most only saying hi
Out where the cars are parking
Most lonely racing by
Out where I was born back when

There I am back again

Where pray the guns may not pop
The store next door I shop
In when I drop in again
There where the night has come to call
When found out bound to fall

Santa Ana over the wall



II



Marlboro hards in his rolled-up sleeve
Baby he was too tough to believe
Maybe I got it or maybe not

But I remembered never forgot
My father the hitman he was who
Was a badass motherf***er too



III



Pardon me if I stumble
But I took a tumble
Or two a few hard knocks on
The dusk before the dawn

So I may be unsteady
Although I am ready
To do the best I can do
Getting it to get through

Getting on with it for
Another day more



IV



Getting through the best I can
An ordinary man
With an extraordinary
History beginning
To feel a bit less wary

Or I may be winning
For all I know about it

No reason to doubt it
Though reason never met me
Nor do I now recall
Or how ever forget me
For madness after all?

But now in my fall season
I will go until gone
Getting it as I go on:
I am my own reason



+Steven Curtis Lance



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Reviewed on June 3, 2014
A poem for reflection of the past. Thank you for sharing!

Sandie


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