Tall and graceful now you stand
Where once you barely reached my hand
I can’t believe how fast you’ve grown
Now ready for life on your own
Off to college soon you’ll go
After this dress and big grad show
Then to the work you want to do
And your own place with all things new
Another day for you too soon will come
When your heart you give to another one
Although it’s moving for me too fast
Our “mom and daughter” I know will last
I love you dearly at every age
You’re a beautiful girl at every stage.
copyright AKent
Filed under: Poetry of Life, Pre-teens/Teenagers Tagged: | growing up, Poems, poetry
Awwww…I know that you are both sad and happy…I’ve had 2 sisters and a brother graduate that I had a big part in raising (sometimes I feel like their mother lol)…so I can definitely empathize!! Stopping in from SITS to say hello, I hope you’ll do the same…lovely poem!
Popped in from SITS to say hi! What a lovely poem! I’m sure she treasures it.
Just stopping over from SITS. Congrats on being one of the top commentes! Come visit and enter my First Big Give-A-Way! It’s Fun!
Robbie : One of the first to comment?? It DOES pay to be up working past midnight!! Lol.
Kristin : Sooo happy, sooo sad. But, I’m sure time will march on, and before I know it we’ll be in a new routine with #1 and it’ll be #2′s turn to stand up on that graduation stage… *sigh*.
Duck : Thanks! It’ll definately being going in her “life scrapbook” I’m supposed to be working on instead of blogging… !!
wow, she’s beautiful and so grown up! I know that’s got to be both a sad and happy thing for you!
Tabitha : It’s just such a shock right now that she’s actually graduated and “on her own” all of a sudden. After 17.5 years, it’s still so sudden!!