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Somehow
Amid all of this
She sings
She smiles
She babbles contentedly
Words forming from the stream
Intelligibly
More and more often

The questions have not come yet
They will
She is not as close to some things as she might be
As her mother and I fear
But she is not so far from them as we might like
And there will be questions

I do not know how I will answer them
I do not know how I can answer them
Given that I am who I am
Looking in only from the outside
But I do not know where to go to be able to help her
And I want to help her
She will need to know
She deserves answers
When she asks

For now
However
She sings
She smiles
She babbles contentedly
Words forming from the stream
Intelligibly
More and more often
And she says she loves me