I Saw My Daughter Today
From my chair I gaze upon her
Just across the room sits
A pink scarfed girl
One I’ve seen many times before
Her mouth moves… gracefully
And ever so much
I watch in loving wonder
Intrigued by what she wonders
Beneath the cotton draped layers
Of her knitted accessory
As her eyes join mine once more
And pierce my reality
Filling it with schoolgirl imagery
She twirls the frayed ends
Of her knitted accessory
With careless innocence
As she speaks to the monkey
On her finger and then to me
Freeing me from the bounds
Of my reality
From the limitations
Of a lost imagination
Lay
Copyright © Walayee Poet Lay Whitlock-Ishway | Year Posted 2012
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