Remember the numbers
You aren't getting younger
You arrived in this world
Coos and bubbles filled the silence
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You are like a flower that blooms in spring
Full of scent,
Scent so strong,
Scent so unpredictable
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I am a violin, strung too tight
Each cord stretched thin, ready to snap
My polished wood exterior grand and bright
But inside I ache, fragments to spill out
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