For Eden Jade

So much outside
I don't want you to see
Don't bother acclimating,love
or wasting time with what they want you to be

You're too beautiful to belong
Too sweet to meld in
To their pink and purple
quicksand

So don't cry if you don't fit
in this for the long haul
Dodge the punches but
Say what you want to say

(Mama taught you that way)

I won't let you spoil
That's the goal
But I don't care if you're golden
and fool them all

I'll hold your hand
until you make me let go
and make you stronger
than I ever was

You could never understand my tears tonight
though they fall to your eyes
I don't understand either

Because sometimes when you do almost everything wrong
you end up with everything right

For you are my one and only
and try,I must
though it take blood and tears...

To make you different than me