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Laughing Last
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Saturday, April 4, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Laughing Last



Once my life was not so nice
Nor was I once or twice
Before I got to Paradise
This Valley anyway

Having gotten out here makes
Me feel I have got what it takes
To be nicer having not
Forgotten about what I got
Out of making mistakes

For going through hell before
In Paradise to know what for
But to forget the rest
Not that I got away with it

But getting to forget
Maybe this is what I earned
Repeating lessons until learned
For having passed the test

Before I knew what for I
Paid after all the price to try
What feels so nice I may
Even though I get depressed
Be lucky maybe even blessed

So I say yes this way
To Paradise hell no to fear
Nicely though to disappear
When laughing last is best



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 Reviews of "Laughing Last"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 6, 2020
You certainly have escaped to Paradise with your thoughts and poems.

Ron

Reviewed by Liana Margiva
Reviewed on April 6, 2020
BEAUTIFUL POEM!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva


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