I remember as a child I had a deep seeded fear of heights <br />I would envision my demise long prior to even a possible fall <br />Once as a teenage boy I knocked a front tooth from my mouth <br />When I jumped twenty feet into a drainage ditch next to our house <br />My mother rushed me to the dentist with my tooth in milk <br />He soon restored my youthful smile <br />But did little if any at all to replace my fear of falling <br />As I still panicked whenever I even stood close to a ledge.... <br />For the last sixty years I have managed to cope more or less <br />Always waking up before any tragedy occurred <br />But last night upon being led to this cliff in my life <br />I jumped and have not landed yet <br />as I knew it was a bottomless pit I was entering....<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deep-depression-and-the-lack-of-any-yearning/
