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I keep it close, and cling to it, for it is the only thing that stays the same in this ever-changing world.
I will proudly display it to everyone I know. They smile a knowing smile, for they hold it close too.
It is something we have never lost, and never had to do without.
It pours from every pore in my body, and flows in my blood.
I will fight for it to preserve our way of life, as many have done in the past.
It is the innocent, the children, and the old.
The past, present, and future.
It is all that I know, and ever hope to know.
I don’t know how different my life would be without it.
I love it and cherish it, as though it was a gem.
But we sometimes take for granted that we possess this wonderful thing.
Like it is something we are entitled to have.
But the wise know different.
They know it is something that can be stripped from us, gone, like a flame in the wind.
Only careful guarding will keep it ours.