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Being becoming and coming to be
Going in lonely the only way out
Coming out with my without by within
And when I go now who end to begin
Where I go there then you know it is me
Writing so you know in spite of me so
You can tell my hand and well understand
Who wrote it if not what it is about
They say write what you know so this is what
About who wrote it there can be no doubt
I therefore in my specificity
Not fancy but Lancean certainly
Would seem to me to be observably
Reading me from both sides wherefore I say
That I must be if we see me this way
That if not possibly I probably
Exist so why should I resist the sky
Not falling but calling me up today
To see tomorrow free of yesterday
To see how to be now to be happy?
The happiness I would feel I cannot
Sometimes for this depression I have got
That I had rather not but have it good
Blunder yet wondrously get understood
Not the sweet by and by but I get by
However now is forever I see
Turns out to be now then or never when
Becoming being nor coming again
Till this is over I think I should stay
Nor would I walk out on this play that way
And what I write of above all is love
Of the love I found on my way around
Of love when I lost and then what it cost
And as it was love I wrote when I found
So it was love I quoted when I lost
Becoming old being too young to die
Though getting used to it now so somehow
Coming along having gotten it how
Disentangled from my right-angled past
Being becoming I come to go now
And going as me specifically
May love be what becomes of me at last
+Steven Curtis Lance
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