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Training Wheels MAG
Because things don't always happen
Or at least, not the way you'd like them to:
Plans fall through
and ideas get shot down
And the reaction you thought you'd get
hits you back in the face
Like a piece of gum spit out a car window.
Arms you expected to be open wide
weren't waiting
And unfortunately,
cookies and milk no longer make it better -
Because they never really did make things better.
Sometimes a band-aid and a kiss
won't heal a scrape
You need to spray the stinging stuff first
to clean it all out,
And only then will a healing scab start to form
So of course you're scared to ride your bike again
(the one your father held the back of for three months
waiting for you to be sure of yourself),
And who wouldn't be?
The good thing
is that you never forget
how to ride a bike
no matter how many times you fall off.
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