Twilight I Subsisting on rice and ramen Untouchably un-Brahmin Maybe Illuminati though Not a Nazi heavens no But just a German Lutheran Doing the best he can Uncommonly uncommon Son of a hitman one who may Be un Mafioso Out in the wilderness now Falling through all the cracks somehow Persisting through the hard way Always resisting anyway Insistingly being me Subsistingly but free II I always thought the world would end before I died Because of how they taught me then (or they tried) At a church that seems now to have been about fear But the world and I are both of us still here All of them dead I wonder what would they have thought I hope the world survives but know I will not They thought I was crazy and they were right but wrong About what the world was about all along Out of my mind yes but the world was on my mind How they taught me then (or they tried) died when they died But I am still here now too crazy to be Afraid having made my decision to transcend To live for love giving away poetry Grateful to the world for what it has given me Hoping to make us both better in the end I bet they were surprised crossing over to find It was love all along for our humankind That it was all about but that they left behind III This is the hour when the dogs bark When the birds fly across a sky Showing its colors before going dark Under it wondering here I See faraway stars start to spark This is the hour when why not becomes why This hour of opportunity In the in between of to be Between day and night is no time to die I want to live and to embark Through the dark for light I might see At this twilight hour the right time for me Anything can happen because This is the hour now when it does Steven Curtis Lance