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The poem begins with the question asked in the title, "And what if I spoke of despair?" and then validates that every person feels despair at some point. Every person can feel hopelessness running inside himself as if it is blood coursing through veins. Although the feeling of despair is a universal one, the actual source of the despair is very personal. (
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