A Velveteen Love Song

My coat is all tattered and worn to shreds
 My whiskers have wondered away
 I've picked up some dirt is some flower beds
 I think that it's in there to stay.
 But the light in your eyes shows a needle and thread
 And the wonder that scrubs me so clean,
 I see in their mirror I'm beautiful
 I pose, and I laugh and I preen
 My bottom's as stout as it's always been
 And maybe a little bit more.
 I never believed it was good for much
 Expect keeping my ears off the floor
 But then when you take me as toss me high
 I fly like the fleetest gazelle,
 And the joy my dusty heart takes in your touch
 Is more than a rabbit can tell.
 My eyes are just buttons of two-penny glass
 They're either too brown or too green.
 There's one of them might not stay on too much longer
 And plenty they've both never seen.
 But they see their way clear to a home in your heart
 I live in the love that you feel
 And there of all places, a place of my own
 Where a Velveteen Rabbit is real.