Love Poem: Letting Go of Our Daughter
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Written by: Tom Quigley

Letting Go of Our Daughter

Love multiplied, your first crying sound
Eyes opening to the world around
To gaze at your newborn face, the sensation
That of peering down the generations
In our lineage, conditions to fear
Now more worried, each passing year
Giving up, choices breaking trust

Girlhood dreams begin to combust
Officer, with whom we discussed

Young womanhood beginning wrongly
Fell temptations pull you away
Although it pains all of us, strongly
For now, with others you must stay

Cherry blossom sun
Broadest smile, to me you run
Vigorous hug, love

4/12/16

For Contest: Letting Go, Three Form Style
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