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Given the Opportunity
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Friday, December 28, 2018    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Given the Opportunity
 
 

Living up to the opportunity of
Not giving up but giving in to love
Can be scary and I was wary until
One day the universe would say be still
Out of the silence without the noise of fear

I heard it say to be glad I was here
That though I may be mad how I had to be
Living up to the opportunity

To open myself to the love and the light
Of it all when after all it felt right
To not give up but give in to seeing why
To live up to being myself as my
Reason though late in the season to go on

To be still and know until I was gone
I had to be here and it had to be how
It was in order for me to be now

To know between tomorrow and yesterday
What sympathy made me wonder about
But empathy made me feel for real without
Any doubt about understanding I
Am someone no one else could be anyway

Giving in to love like a falling star
Having survived to arrive at destiny
To do my best to be the rest of me

Not giving up now having come this far
Here I am given the opportunity
 
 

Steven Curtis Lance
 


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 Reviews of "Given the Opportunity"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 29, 2018
When love comes, best not pass on the opportunity.

Ron

Reviewed on December 28, 2018
"a falling star...........yes." Bless you, Steven!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on December 28, 2018
Giving up is never the best option.


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