and for awhile it was red and bright.
In my heart I felt a knife twist
and pain enter my head as light.
My ego was bruised for I had been dumb
and my wrist was in pain for some time,
but soon I thought the thing was done
because the redness cleared and I felt fine.
Just when I had forgotten the bruise
and blocked it from my mind,
something strange happened to me
and I thought it a bit unkind.
The bruise reappeared on my wirst
and pain came back with it too,
when I thought it was gone forever,
again it was making me blue.
Now it hurts worse than before,
and reminds me of what I did wrong,
and I pray that it won't last -
I can't take it for long.
One thing though I find strange,
and it weighs upon my mind,
I think I'd fall all over again
if I could go back in time.
You see, there was a lesson when I fell,
I'm glad that I was caught,
and I won't make the mistake again
now that I have been taught.