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LITTLE WONDER

I wonder if you hear me,I wonder what you think 

I wonder if you're liking the things I eat and drink 

I wonder how you're sleeping is everything okay 

I wonder what new limbs you have and how much you've grown today 

Are you a boy or a girl? I have a feeling you're a girl

Does your hair grow straight or does it have a curl

What colour will your eyes be 

How much will you weig...

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Faced With Tomorrow

Deep inside my swollen body, she kicks

.A tiny survivor, a fighter, a warrior queen,

So small yet she's ready to take on the universe...

...yet I feel guilt at bringing her into a world so unclean.

 

She knows not yet that she faces a future

So shaky, so insecure and unknown.

I'll love and protect her with a tigress ferocity,

But I can only do so much, one day she'll be gro...

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