Felled

 

Once, long ago,

I fell with my baby in my arms,

Bump,

Bump,

Bump,

Bumpety 

Bumpbumpbump,

All the way

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the steep stairs. 

I held him tight, 

Every single stair

bouncing my heart 

like a beach ball.

There, 

Sitting, clinging to each other

at the foot,

He laughing - gen ! gen !

Throwing his head back

in some sort of ecstatic longing,

But me, 

So full of fright,

Hugging him far too tight,

Burying my head in his lovely hair

And sobbing so loud,

He begins to wail,

What a pair,

Clinging and crying,

Sobbing and wailing,

Until the cat came,

And led him away.