If only I could keep you forever If only I had my way You would be my precious treasure That Id protect everyday

Id bind you lightly, with strings Of love and joy, comfort and care And a sense of security that always clings Just so that I could keep you near These are but the yearnings of a heart No matter how much I brood In time, we must go apart Bondage never did any good For winds of change will surely blow And afflict its nature upon you Slowly you will grow Into something different from what I knew Perhaps, the strings will tighten Choking your existence Or so much would they slacken Losing you in distance Both the ways, I suffer Youll be beyond my reach Living this life would be rougher My soul would incessantly screech Yet, those strings Id softy tie To you, and give them their chance To grow and shrink, to dip and fly With you, as you advance No, Ill not hold the ends of any linking You are free to soar and shine Ill quietly rejoice thinking For a moment, you were mine