This childish heart of mine

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When I was once a child

I was told that the world

Was a place where I could

Simply be me.

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As long as I was strong

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I didn't ask what happened

to those who weren't strong

Or what would happen to me

If I wasn't

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I was afraid

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I was told that I had

A big heart filled with joy.

But that space was also filled

With other things

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Like pain

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But everything I had

When I was a child faded

As I became older and wiser

It was duller

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My heart

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I'd been chasing after so many

Unimportant things that I kept

On tripping up over my

Own two feet

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Clumsy, foolish...

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It was all just too much...

For my childish heart