My beautiful daughter,
I am thinking of you
while you sit in the bathtub downstairs,
your sad song echoing in the bathroom,
Guitar strumming,
your voice is bittersweet,
beautiful and haunting,
How do I explain this?
You being thirteen years old
has nothing to do with this
has everything to do this this,
you are on the cusp of something beautiful,
something dangerously, wickedly wonderful
Life is here waiting and you
are here to savor,
to experience,
to love and laugh,
to cry and sob
these are all one and the same,
Open your heart
and let the world in.
Beautiful daughter,
Your fingertips
touch canvas and dreams flow on to paper
colors both dark and light, these are all parts of you
the dark and the light,
I am telling you
I understand your sadness
your unexplained grief and angst towards the world
where you want to tear a hole in the sky and walk out of this mess,
leave it all behind,
Beautiful daughter,
I am writing this truth down,
a hurt that digs deep inside you,
to the white of the bone,
till there is nothing left to cling to,
But my daughter,
I am telling you
there is beauty in truth,
beauty in being in the moment when
the sun catches the reflection in the window
and you wake up,
the quiet of the morning
no one is stiring,
not the orange cat we call floyd has even
stirred next to your head,
It is in this exact moment,
time and space when you
wake up to greet the day,
this is what I felt when you came into my life
your eyes peered out
curious and shiny
you did not utter a cry but rather
quietly smiling
taking into the enorminity of what you will
conquer and experience,
I remember looking into your eyes,
newborn daughter,
beautiful human,
glorious being,
I remember looking into your eyes and feeling what you are feeling now,
being in the moment,
the quiet of the new day
the roar of the sun rising,
music filling my head as it fills and surrounds you,
this and many more
you are not alone
you are not alone,
Open your heart
and let the world in.
Wow! What a beautiful poem! Thank you so much for posting this! 🙂
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