Hold me.
Just hold me and let me be.
Let me be the the little girl I forgot
Way back when the 2nd millennium began.
Let me be the awkward teenager
Whose curiosity was worse than a cat.
Let me be the young woman who values work
As though it is her way to salvation.
Let me be your princess and your queen
And everything else you need, in love.
But hold me.
And I will hold you.
Let you be the little boy in grubby shorts
Out in the sun instead of in class.
Let you be the awkward teenager who couldn't
Care less about the world than it did for him.
Let you be the young man wandering and wondering
In search of what he is to be and become.
Let you be my prince and my king when it is time
Because there are no questions, not in love.
And I'll hold you
So tell me this if
We let ourselves be anyone we want then
Could we still be lovers to each other
while being strangers to ourselves?
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My eyes stray nowhere else.
The lion's golden brown eyes devoured the soul of a patient bull.
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