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Unfree
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Saturday, February 8, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Unfree



Surviving me improbably an
An old man doing what he can
Through the twists and turns of existing

My persistent existence
Is in fact an act of resistance
It turns out to the twisting
Of insistent unreality

Having lived to see it come
To be unforgiving and unfree

This fearful thing happening
Here gives me my chance to overcome
By outliving what I know
Too well I can tell from history:

This authoritarian
Fantasy of another old man
Is going to end badly

Knowing more about mortality
No doubt about its outcome

I resist by insisting to be
Persistently albeit
Improbably still here to see it
Fall after all (and it will)

By existing I resist until
Having lived to see it go



Steven Curtis Lance

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Reviewed on February 10, 2020
Your words reflect much of what I've been thinking about lately like how much I've seen go by! Astonishing, Steven! Very interesting write!

Love ya!

Jane


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