If you should throw your life away
for whims and wills and what people say,
rest assured I will always preserve
your once unstoppable, untamable nerve.
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If you should fade into the mold
and follow the rules and slowly grow old,
I’ll forever guard your abandoned dreams,
forever adore their luminous gleam.
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If you forget the way you hoped,
and with normality swoon and elope,
and never deign to regret your loss,
and rise each day and file and floss,
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I promise to stay the child you knew-
the one who refused and never grew.
I’ll carry your innocence until I die
and hold it close on my way to the skies.
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And if when I die I’m asked to declare
If on Earth I found any good left there,
I’ll present the good you had from the start
and the unshakable notion it’s still deep in your heart.
