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And there were hairs
And they were strings
Once was separate, a different thing
It wound around the others
Trying to keep the from falling
From reaching the end
Faster and faster it wound and pulled
Upward, upward, its friends it lulled.
And it was the shortest
And slowest to grow
It's greatest fear-
Only reality- being too slow
And I was this string
And I was this hair
And I was desperate
To save all who were there
And the others were strings
And the others were hairs
Slipping free of my self
Not wanting kept there
And they grew faster
The harder I pulled
I could not support them
For too many they were
And these people
Who were other hairs, strings,
Taught me one thing
One of me, a thin hair, string,
Couldn't save the thousand
From that which they bring