Brilliant Wordsmith Steven Curtis Lance
I just had to post this when the amazingly talented Steven Curtis Lance posted this for yours truly; it’s profound, and I find it also to be incredibly true in these days and times we live in; without further ado:
for Lydia Aswolf
Have you seen the madmen walking
Men with something on their minds
Heard the angry sad men talking
Less aheads and more behinds?
Walking straight ahead into the past
Talking straight behind into the when of then
Having been but never meant to be again
Men for whom the endgame cannot come too fast
Ignorance in action rude reality
Closeted and goitered faked and baked and brewed
Laughing at us even as we help them be
Men for whom money is their favorite food
Have you heard the madmen talking
Less aheads and more behinds?
Seen the angry sad men walking
Men with nothing on their minds?
Straight ahead off the cliff after us behind
Blindly having bought and paid now for the blind
+Steven Curtis Lance
Copyright MMX
This is a man I MUST book for Lydia’s Literary Lowdown; we could all do with speaking to a poet, couldn’t we?
You can also find Steven’s Extraordinary book of poetry here: http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Curtis-Lance-Collected-Poems/dp/1411615301
You can also find Steven on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Curtis-Lance/712074781
Steven is also a great contributor here: http://www.authorsden.com/stevencurtislance
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