I Having been a long time I have seen Then to now through history between And to me it is a mystery Why people make the choices they do So I chose wisely in love though she Surprisingly unwisely chose me But I too have made a choice or two In the mystery of history Untrue to me and not how I mean To be so now very warily I undertake the choices I make Having learned the hard way by mistake II Flailing the fearful ones yearn for a strongman Failing to learn from the past turn to the wrong man And turn out to learn what to not do again Many who would rather not learn anything now Wanting what is haunting because it has been Turn out to turn from some of us as lesser than A strongman railing assailing now somehow Who tells it like it was turning back to back when Just because he says so says now must be then Many who by any means would do what was done Cannot remember now but some of us can Never was one ever lesser than anyone III What the dark conceals Then is enshrouded That the light reveals Now is unclouded Seeing delighted Day dancing with night Being invited By chance I say yes Shadowed and lighted The world moves and I Too move through stillness My shadow by light Being now I guess Seeing how and why Steven Curtis Lance