19 (poem) by +Steven Curtis Lance on AuthorsDen

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Sunday, September 22, 2019 Rated "G" by the Author.

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19 I have been around a long time Long enough to see history rhyme I notice things like this of course But I found the second time is worse Like World War 1 becoming 2 Or how our nightmare now coming true For all its unreality Reminds me of something I lived through Died through as well but I should tell You when Nixon resigned I got well Having been in a coma when It was Watergate but it was fate That I should come to life again So I could see and not be too late Then but now I am old I see Never mind 1974 Not quite like this ever before This really might be the death of me I want to feel free having been Believing I was if naively Through a crack in society Haunted to see from the outside in Waiting for fate to fight the fear And hate I fear I might not be here This second time around is not How it was when I died and forgot Because I am wide awake now Hoping Karma will hurry somehow This time bent with worry I wait For what went before I never knew After all then I was 19 Death is whenever but life is too And surprisingly stubbornly Being as mad as I had to be Through sadder but wiser years between It rhymes if you know what I mean Steven Curtis Lance

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on September 23, 2019

I checked out your bio finally. I would encourage others to read it in depth like I did. I didn't know that you had encephalitis at 19 that put you in a coma and certainly messed with your brain. Only time will tell but eventually people may understand your poetry better and not be alienated by you like you have been of yourself nearly throughout your life.

Ron