morning thoughts

30 May, 2000 LJA

she lies sleeping

brings her

tousled hair

school and friends

scattered around her head

new hopes new joys

like her clothes in disarray

my child

across the floor

this woman lying there

my youngest girl

my baby grown

a child no more

to find her way

but woman

within the world

young and vibrant

my heart swells

filled with dreams of youth

with

I watch her sleep

the knowing of her

my presence wakes her

lying there

with a groan

in dreams

"too early, mom,

of futures yet untried

I want to sleep"

and yet her own

she pulls her covers

to live

to her head and

my daughter

curls to rest

my baby once

until the morning

a young woman now

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