Lifeline

He became isolated toward the end
At least to outward appearance
Losing a wife and then friend after friend

While immune to interference
By conventional reality
He made his own friends by poetry

If only from a distance still they were
His lifeline at the last especially one
Who kept him "sane" those years and without her
More than he did he would have come undone

"When this you see remember me" he said
"Halt die Ohren steif" she replied
I know she will long after he is dead
He loved her till the day he died

In that abstract and lonely way he had

She was the one who really knew how sad
He was because (though she knew he was mad)
I think she loved him just as he loved her
As the perfect couple who never were

Yet somehow could be in eternity

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMV

This is beautiful Stevie. I have no other words, just beautiful.

Thanks, Mandy!

It's about me...

This is the penultimate poem in The Red Book of Lance, which closes with Life Runs Deep.

It really means a lot to me that you like it. Thanks so much.

Love,

+Stevie

I wish I had a lifeline too....

Hello?
Is there somebody out there...?!

A good poem Steve.You are an amazing poet.

Love,
Orania

That's very kind of you, Orania.

I am quite happy to be anybody's lifeline who needs one.

Friday my doctor sent me his foreword for my seventh book, and it was just wonderful; so kind, so insightful. I have been happy ever since I first read it. I posted it on my homepage at AuthorsDen:

http://www.authorsden.com/stevencurtislance

It appears just under the biographical statement which another friend wrote about me, the same friend who made the page for me some time ago.

I am so glad you like my poetry, Orania; your encouragement and support really help me to have the confidence I need to do my best and not surrender to the darkness. "I get by with a little help from my friends."

Thanks and love,

+Stevie

Fiat justitia, ruat mundus: fiat lux.

The moon in all its phases shines for me / Each flashing diamond star a treasured kiss / And all of it lives in my poetry / I have not lived in vain but lived for this
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Dear Steven
you made it attractive
cover page simply beautiful
supani
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Thank you, Supani!

Your opinion really means a lot to me, my friend and fellow poet.

Respect and solidarity, and love always,

+Stevie

That was brilliant.



misty..

Beautis!

I am so grateful to you for pointing out that mistake in my German; you are right, and I had it written wrong. It was a phrase I had understood in a preliterate sense, and when I came to write it down, I made an incorrect assumption as to spelling, probably because the "r" is so soft in the far west (NRW), in the German I remember, that I got mixed up as to whether there was one there or not. As you can tell, my German is all rusted out!

I am honestly grateful to you for your help on this, and I welcome you to our forum. Thanks for coming, and thanks for helping me out. I will fix this right away.

Respect and solidarity, and I owe you one, my new friend.

Love,

+Stevie

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Misty!

Thank you so much, as always, for your support and encouragement. The poem is even better now, since I got the German right, thanks to our new friend and member, Beautis.

Love,

+Stevie