Not Again The young are told by the old now is then Stand still and stay tuned say turn back to back when You were still buying until you were sold Lying they say time now for then again still A few complying will be sold to do as told I am old too but I am not like that To "stand athwart history yelling stop" and Refusing to lose now then winning at Getting people choosing to misunderstand Willfully keep the sheep skillfully in their fold Our time is now they say but it has been And having been then not to be now again What anybody knows about today Is it is not about to be yesterday Being how many I have been and may Be say now is what is seeing then is what Is not anything that is but is what is not I remember then because I was there Through those years of history the mystery To me was how the fearful came to be Too easy to scare when I became aware Of a strange fear of change then in the air When it was then the old now dead skillfully Willfully misled the fearful headed nowhere Now for the living or then for the dead Time never turned back ever learned to stand still Went forward as if sent relentlessly Though then never meant to now went on ahead Realized in the real time of reality I find time does not turn back but away Now from then when then again is in its way So whose time it is if any instead Of many who bought then and thought it was how To make time stand still when it will not now Turns out to be those who learn being timely To know when seeing then to say no not again Steven Curtis Lance