1929-1939

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Have you ever fallen?

Down that endless hole

Of impenetrable darkness?

I have

At the beginning

I felt that it was nothing to me

A small inconvenience to me

Something I could jump over

Like a rock in a still river

So I stand there

Ready to jump

When it starts to rain

Hard

All of a sudden

That small rock is wet

So slippery I would surely slide

Slip and slide on that very inconveniently small rock

And fall

In that dark, dark river

So I sat and waited

For the storm to pass

And it does

I stand yet again,

But something is wrong

Why

That small, inconvenient rock

Is still inconvenient

But no longer small

It has grown to such a size

As I realize

That I could never jump over that rock

I missed my chance

To prance

I have lost my will

No

I will try,

I would rather try than regret

So I leap, and how glorious it was

But no

This story does not end well

Because I do not land on that inconveniently big rock

I fall in that dark, dark river

And here I am to tell you

To jump when you can

Before it is too great for you to handle alone.


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