I ascend the platform to make a speech
Confident, puffed and pumped-full of pride
But upon facing the audience found
I could not remember by words, nowhere to hide...
So I stumble-through, somehow to the end,
And much quieter, chastened, and humbled
From the speaker's stage, descend...
Soon after, a little old lady grabbed my sleve and said:
"If you went up, lookin like when you came down;
You would have come down, lookin like when you went up"
I looked at her with surprise, and mumbled
"Thanks", but remembered her words completely, in the end.
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