Remained by Dan-Vy Nguyen

Remained by Dan-Vy Nguyen

I know you were present when I was born,

Though I have no recollection of it.

I loved the dear parents You gave to me

Though I still feel Your arms wrapped around me.

I was not aware of it at the time,

But Your love for me will remain the same

I grew up knowing nothing but Your love.

My mind and heart still very young and pure.

Running around without a care at all,

And Your love for me will remain the same.

And as I get a little bit older,

Sin and temptation came into my life.

As I began to question everything,

As I began to lose my faith in you,

Your love for me will still remain the same.

As I age into my adolescence,

And as I open myself up to You,

You came down to change me, to rescue me.

My love for You begins to grow and grow,

But Your love for me has remained the same.

And as I get a little bit older,

I put You in the center of my life.

You put someone into my life.

Someone to spend the rest of my life with,

To share my relationship with You.

But Your love for me has remained the same.

And as I grow old,

And as I get closer to seeing You,

I get my heart ready to love You more.

More love than my human heart could contain,

But Your love for me has always remained the same.

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Young Love by Andrew Marvell

Come, little infant, love me now,

   While thine unsuspected years

Clear thine agèd father’s brow

   From cold jealousy and fears.

Pretty, surely, ’twere to see

   By young love old time beguiled,

While our sportings are as free

   As the nurse’s with the child.

Common beauties stay fifteen;

   Such as yours should swifter move,

Whose fair blossoms are too green

   Yet for lust, but not for love.

Love as much the snowy lamb,

   Or the wanton kid, does prize,

As the lusty bull or ram,

   For his morning sacrifice.

Now then love me: time may take

   Thee before thy time away:

Of this need we’ll virtue make,

   And learn love before we may.

So we win of doubtful fate;

   And if good she to us meant,

We that good shall antedate,

   Or, if ill, that ill prevent.

Thus as kingdoms, frustrating

   Other titles to their crown,

In the cradle crown their king,

   So all foreign claims to drown,

So, to make all rivals vain,

   Now I crown thee with my love:

Crown me with thy love again,

   And we both shall monarchs prove.