How could I keep the best of me? oh! child-to-dance-in-forests? how could I never forget your giving heart your insistence in romance your belief in love?

How could I protect your indescribable dreams? how could I shelter such a king? such a royal little thing?

How could I keep you and not cry? how could I build you and still survive? how can I tell you: be you while you are so afraid? how can I hold on to this wonder the best part of me without dying of pain? how oh! child-to-dance-in-forests how can we grow to be.

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