Daddy’s Girl
What’s he to do
But stand
Where he’s stood
Waiting in the wings
Case she needs a hand
With the laces
Think she’s got it now
Watch her run
Back to him
The care
He took
Wasn’t lost
It swam with exotic fish
It hopped free
In a carpet-chewing field
It moved aside to let
An old dog by
It made room for
A new breed
It was tested
In the “absolutely not” cat
Kept
It was in the packet of seeds
Ever growing in the breeze
It was in the every day
Constant way
He loved her mother
It was in the no matter
what, when or where
He’d make it right
It was in the gentle nature
That needed no voice
To hear it
It was in the prayerful way
He went about the day
No it wasn’t lost
The care he took
For in her daddy’s eyes
She can see
All he ever wanted
Her to be
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