Daughter

My daughter makes me laugh until I ache.
She smooths my hair with gentle hands.
She trusts me with her life. What a profound honor.
She is full of conviction, and when life asks hard things of her, she meets them with decided determination.
She loves me, somehow, despite every flaw.
She loves me to the moon, past Pluto, and all the way back again.
And when hardship finds her, as it surely will,
I will walk with her

every step.