when i'm released

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2004

larry curtis spurlock

when i’m released

when i’m released
i’ll roam about
round ‘n’ round
in and out

like a lightning bug
at night
i’ll disappear
then reignite

time and space
know no bounds
mysteriously haunting
hallowed grounds

witnessing
in seventeen ninety-one
a meeting house building
just begun

eternal seconds
parallel four score
farms, families, schools
and the civil war

still nearly a century
would pass on by
before all heard
my very first cry

from then til now
i must admit
seemed an eternity
i never quit

until my name
called aloud
by reaper grim
in his coal-black shroud

and once i am
pronounced deceased
my soul will roam
when i’m released