The Lancean Specificity
Deeper
for anyone who reads this
Our existence is confirmed in one another as we
Check ourselves as though in the mirror looking in the eyes
Of someone else to see if we are still there if we see
And are seen in the in between if you know what I mean
Where the deeper the darkness is the brighter is the star
Seeing we recognize each other as we realize
That other people hell though they may be are how we know
We are by seeing each other our existence agreed
Upon seeing the light of you in me and mine in you
And we may think we do not but we need us even so
Looking to find ourselves we find we are looking too far
We cannot confirm we exist without us even though
We think we do and we might want to or we might want to
Think we do there is just no helping our need for us now
That we exist and know that we exist and this is how
No helping our need for us now but our being indeed
Being its own reward in going from and coming toward
In the in between where we know what we mean as we lead
The lives of stars to shine reflected in each other's eyes
Where our being seems visible only reflectively
I do not remember existing until I saw you
It took until I saw myself in you to realize
In that moment of our mutual reciprocity
When we were and when being with you was its own reward
When you saw you in me reflecting that I saw it too
That this is how we are and know we are and it was soon
Then looking in your eyes that I began to see my own
Seeing you seeing me becoming as we are to be
Both of us reflecting each other like the sun and moon
Seeing myself reflected I saw I was not alone
We are not brains in jars but voyagers among the stars
Nor are we alone out here as it is becoming clear
When we find what we mean in the space in the in between
Where in the deepest darkness there is where the stars appear
Where the deeper the darkness the brighter the stars are seen
And the stars in our eyes are all of us becoming clear
All we wanted it turns out was just to be somebody
The stars we are where we could shine forever and ever
Or if not at least for here and now this moment we are
Clear in the here and now between forever and never
Where we find space is always now and stars are always here
And finding each other reflecting we find us to be
Our ground of being way of seeing and the meaning of
All we have looked for all this time as we have looked too far
For us reflected in our coexistent company
Being reflections of each other as the stars we are
Who can never see us as we are until we can see
Not in our backwards mirrors but our shared humanity
The image of us in the eyes of others finding love
Where the deeper the darkness is the brighter is the star
+Steven Curtis Lance
Copyright MMX
Our existence is confirmed in one another as we
Check ourselves as though in the mirror looking in the eyes
Of someone else to see if we are still there if we see
And are seen in the in between if you know what I mean
Where the deeper the darkness is the brighter is the star
Seeing we recognize each other as we realize
That other people hell though they may be are how we know
We are by seeing each other our existence agreed
Upon seeing the light of you in me and mine in you
And we may think we do not but we need us even so
Looking to find ourselves we find we are looking too far
We cannot confirm we exist without us even though
We think we do and we might want to or we might want to
Think we do there is just no helping our need for us now
That we exist and know that we exist and this is how
No helping our need for us now but our being indeed
Being its own reward in going from and coming toward
In the in between where we know what we mean as we lead
The lives of stars to shine reflected in each other's eyes
Where our being seems visible only reflectively
I do not remember existing until I saw you
It took until I saw myself in you to realize
In that moment of our mutual reciprocity
When we were and when being with you was its own reward
When you saw you in me reflecting that I saw it too
That this is how we are and know we are and it was soon
Then looking in your eyes that I began to see my own
Seeing you seeing me becoming as we are to be
Both of us reflecting each other like the sun and moon
Seeing myself reflected I saw I was not alone
We are not brains in jars but voyagers among the stars
Nor are we alone out here as it is becoming clear
When we find what we mean in the space in the in between
Where in the deepest darkness there is where the stars appear
Where the deeper the darkness the brighter the stars are seen
And the stars in our eyes are all of us becoming clear
All we wanted it turns out was just to be somebody
The stars we are where we could shine forever and ever
Or if not at least for here and now this moment we are
Clear in the here and now between forever and never
Where we find space is always now and stars are always here
And finding each other reflecting we find us to be
Our ground of being way of seeing and the meaning of
All we have looked for all this time as we have looked too far
For us reflected in our coexistent company
Being reflections of each other as the stars we are
Who can never see us as we are until we can see
Not in our backwards mirrors but our shared humanity
The image of us in the eyes of others finding love
Where the deeper the darkness is the brighter is the star
+Steven Curtis Lance
Copyright MMX
