Dear Child

I love to hear you speak
as no one else does
no one fills me like you do.
I will not let anyone else
in where you are. 
because you are as innocent
as life has made you.
And i will not change you,
but I will protect you
in your innocence
and I will hold your heart
in my hand,
protecting it
from the less convenient parts of the world.
Until you are
truly free 
for the darkness.