what if?

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so many things could happen
only some of them will,
and hopefully only the good ones,
but everyone knows it doesn't go that way.
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at a point in my life where embarrassment is disastrous,
this is more like standing on a cliff than a stage.
i may fall, or i may climb, but no one can see into the future 
and tell me which.
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