The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
SHEL SILVERSTEINIf you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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This boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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