Flying Lesson

Between piety and dubiety
Betwixt fundamentalism and doubt
Stands the golden mean of satiety
Wherein the soul soars but never flies blind

While those souls on the fringes flail about
Faith and reason in their season heart and mind
In equipoise avoid the noise and strife
Of the unbalanced and unexamined life

When fringes fail extremes have sorely tried
When what has been is gone let go and be
Come find the middle and be satisfied
To be full of now and open to love

Finding unity in variety
With no one beneath you and no one above
Past drunkenness beyond sobriety
From that which might have been to the golden mean

Seek not the overfullness born of greed
Wrapped in the cheap self-printed cloth of sloth
But that balance between excess and need
The satisfaction of satiety

Trust but verify claim yet clarify
For there is really but one society
To be shared by all and by you and me
Keep your wings healthy and strong: fly high fly long

+Steven Curtis Lance



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g`day cousin, i stand in awe and salute you, you have a fine collection of works in this your secret place you have indeed a verse for all moods and or inspirations, much like the person ~ a man for all seasons. tis good to be back amongst it, fly high and fly long dear steven, much reguard and take care, greg

Thank you with all my heart, dear Cousin Greg, both for these your kind words and for coming to be among us here.

I am very much enjoying your poems as they appear in our midst. I know you will feel at home here, and I am so glad you have come.

Cheers and love,

+Cousin Stevie