Day 302 - Naughty at the Seaside

Dedicated to my Daddy who read the book a million times over to me

Tell me the story again, she pleads

Sifting the sand between her toes

The one where they get caught up in the sea weeds

Nodding she can see that Daddy knows

So he puts on the funny face he saves

For only the best and most heroic tales

In which the adventurers hide in caves

Quickly pulling down their give-away sails

She walks on proudly sure she is the one

Who shall master the pirate's vast ship

A perfect day in the seaside sun

Water bright blue inviting a dip

Into tales of pirates who the wide world roam

Nothing else in the stories ever felt so like home

Day 264 - Sunflower Fields Fading

The years grow shorter and tired now

Petals close upon memories that set with the sun

Away from the summer light life pulls you

Your own princess begins her journey

And your energy is used up helping her

As she bursts into bloom the way all children do

It is your laughing husband spinning his daughter about

When you return to your quiet sunflower fields

It is making way for life, as it surrenders its own

You are still learning from this place even today

Wrapped in a cardigan in hopes of not fading with the wind

Your precious flowers have had a long life of brightness

They with time grow less stocky and you find yourself following suit

You show your daughter how to eat the delicious seeds

And she laughs out loud, shaking them for music, growing faster every day

You slide some seeds under her pillow tonight, for sweet dreams

And under your own as you used to save pressed petals in your books

Planning to take them out to bring your field to life again, you smile

Day 23 - Love

Love

Here I begin to bend, anything for my darling

It matters not what shape I might take on later

And though this may seem quite alarming

I would go through hell and back and still wait for her

She holds all that has ever meant anything at all

She creates light even when the hope is so small

You see when she holds me, I know nothing more

There is only now and having her by my side

Nothing matters about later or before

For with me she has chosen to truly confide

How can such an angel breathe next to me?

That I will be forever too blind to see

I have not felt this pure or right since my birth

And that was eons ago or so it seems

That only placed me here on this earth

But she has come straight out of my dreams

To enlighten every moment I exist and live

And for her there is nothing I would not give