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A reformed man - A sad case Pt II

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It seems a long time ago

that I first came to this place

and the doctors and nurses all

seemed more than a little scary

 

But I've grown, both as a person

within and the boy that stood

there that day is no more.

Now I am a man.

 

You see, I had a terrible disease,

horrible it was. I couldn't stop

rhyming... ugh! to even say the word

sends me into convulsions.

 

But I'm better now. Thanks to all

the hard work that my doctors

and nurses put in. Cured. And

I'm so pleased to be sitting here

 

before the review board today,

having been given an opportunity

to speak. Yes, I'm quite proud

of my achievements to date.

 

There's even talk of using my case

as a role model for similar treatments.

That would be quite special.

Quite special indeed.

 

And so I sit before you now

and ask that you remember how

I came to you so long ago

and now I'm cured, prepared to go.

 

What! No, no! You are mistaken!

I won't sit down! I can't stop shakin'.

I didn't rhyme then, don't you see?

It was the guard, it was not me!

 

No! Don't take me back to that cell,

consign me to the white, cold hell

that greets my eyes when I awake,

to take my pills and start to shake.

 

Oh no. I can't believe it's true,

I thought the light had broken through

but now I see I'm just as sick

as when I came here. Brick by brick

 

I built the walls around my heart

and hoped the rhymes would not then start

to leak between the bricks and mortar.

Looks like time is getting shorter.

 

Yes, I think I'd better go now

take my pills and stop the flow now

Yes, bend down and touch my toes now

guess that's just the way it goes now.........

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