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Our Own Reality
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"One thing alone is known and satisfies / All existential questions with a thump"

Our Own Reality When what-if and then how what-if might be As effect of a cause no one can know Keep me awake I try to keep in mind The future we dread ahead as we go Becomes the past when we leave it behind But if you need ask you need not ask me We each must find our own reality The past goes fast the future comes too slow So no one notices the present now Slip out through a crack in the back nor how The longer we live the clearer we see That we are trapped within a tragedy Heroes and villains as fate will allow Protagonists of this dying dumbshow As agonists often in agony When what-if and how what-if might be then Beyond the cause and its effect between When all has come and been and all has gone Dreams dreamed life lived love lost and found again When eyes must close to bear what they have seen Night shades itself in shadow from the dawn Our time will come though I cannot say when We come to go and so our life goes on One thing alone is known and satisfies All existential questions with a thump I am not very good at prophecy But I can tell you everybody dies So rather than sit on the fence I jump You want as much as I do to be free We each must find our own reality +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMVIII

Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on February 20, 2008

I see that you have not stopped thinking, Steven. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Love and best wishes,

Regis

Reviewed by Lew Duffey

Reviewed on February 19, 2008

Yes it is your own reality. One thought, though! Your poems are now and they bless a lot of people. The past is over. The future will come in time. Simply keep writing now. This is all we have.
God Bless,
Lew

Reviewed by JASMIN HORST SEILER

Reviewed on February 17, 2008

Lance stay a while on that fence and look around, nothing be different on the other side, the other side is here, so you might as well endavour, and like Karla said, keep on writing, only in the depths of despair and the heights of Bliss do we find that, which we need to express, and this expression is touching and reaching for answers in a most profound way, thanks for the write, and Blessings!
Jasmin Horst

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

I hope your reality is not taking your life, depriving others of words that must be penned - painful to read, Steven, you are in my prayers -

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(