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As I Watch Her Go.

There she gos I thought to myself as she walked away seams like yesterday I was helping her to take her first step, today daddy's girl is all grown up doing it all her way I can honestly say it wasn't as I slept, I've always been there to make her smile when she was sad always there to pick her up to talk to or lend a hand, 12 years of her in my life...for 12 years Superman was dad to her if the world came crashing down there I would stand, I kept her safe, kept her warm took away all her fear now as the day gos by I see her need for me subside today it's all about cute boys and music in her ear and for daddy's filling I now have to hide, seeing time move back wards would give me that sensation again when I was her hero and she loved to be in my arms now a quick kiss goodbye and a pat on the back like a friend how dose a dad weather this storm? as she walks away.... she'll never be a little girl again I know then a quick turn to look back and see, dad is still here as she's ready and I watch her go then a smile from her and I know it's for me.

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Date: 11/12/2008 6:35:00 AM
What a sweet poem. It is so hard to let them go, grow up and move away for needing us! I wrote a poem about that feeling too, called 'Unlatched', one of my first poems on P.S. ...and my son is now 40 years old! So we never get passed that feeling of having to let them go, no matter how old they get! Great poem here! ~ Carrie
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