OOPS! SORRY TO BE LATE!
By rights we shouldn’t even be here.
But we are.
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness
and danger they were.
And sometimes
you didn’t want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy.
How could the world
go back to the way it was
when so much bad had happened.
But in the end,
it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines
it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories
that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small
to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo,
I do understand.
I know now.

Folk in those stories
had lots of chances
of turning back
only they didn’t.
Because they were
holding on to something.
FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?
SAM: That there’s some good
in this world, Mr. Frodo.
And it’s worth fighting for.
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