Yulissa's Request
Yesterday my daughter was twenty nine
And I tried wrapping my mind around it
Tried to bring to comprehension
The swiftness of the passing years
The baby in my hands like melted snow
The petals fallen
The pollen seedling into tree
The blossoms of another's spring
While winter sets on me
So hard to comprehend in her growth
That I prayed for this
Long nights of lullabies made insomniac
By the cries of her appetite
For the bottle I must warm and feed
To the tongues first addiction to delight
And I nervous kept her dry
Enslaved and trapped within each cry
Each protest she proclaims
Until I sing. The lullaby became
An anthem for me, my composition
My liberty.
And yesterday the baby spoke again
"Daddy, post my anthem on my facebook domain."
And the years just melted away.
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