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Absurdity
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Saturday, May 18, 2019 Rated "G" by the Author.

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Absurdity I looked through the ghosts of history But saw there was no one there Only the twist of a mystery Like a question in the air Gone they went on but they left me to Wonder about what will be Understanding what I have to do Is to be left up to me Now to see about how to get through A time of absurdity Here to find such meaning as I can Try to find out what is true Knowing I am not the only one Not fooled by what I have seen The cruel adversity of the Absurdity going on I would like to be enlightened but Might be frightened what I see Like to see it through no matter what Through the fighting to be free Seeing us wondering everywhere None of us is lesser than Another and we the otherwise Understand what is not fair Things got unfair and taught me to care Now as an absurd old man Rising surprised to open my eyes To my fate belatedly The meaning is in the in between Of us now when even though I feel alone you know what I mean So when life goes on I go The absurdity of all of this For the poor is even more Than ever before harder to miss On the precipice of war But I hang on and hope for the best Being crazy after all Seeing absurdity rise and fall Trying to cope with the rest Steven Curtis Lance

Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci

Reviewed on May 19, 2019

Hey, hon. I would take that "crazy" and run with it. "I feel alone you know what I mean"...........yup, I do.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Absurdity is the favorite theme of the French philosophers like Sartre and Camus. Out of the darkness of the thirties created by World War I, came the brutal communist regimes and the fascist brutalizers that led to World War II. Nothing more absurd than the world at war over the very existence of freedom from despots. We may be reaching a point now where what we are doing is literally absurd. By not facing the truth of global warming, by not actively controlling our population, and by not aggressively leaving the planet for outer space, maybe sealing our own fate into one of continual wars, environmental degradation, and our extinction.

Ron