Daughters & Daddies

January 18, 2013 Small Stone #13

daughters know daddies
make it so

daughters reach for daddies
to hold them up
to catch them
before they make contact
with the ground

daughters think daddies
make it so

daughters expect daddies
to protect them from
the big and bad
that appears after dark

daughters wonder if daddies
really know how to make it so

daughters hand daddies
their fragile hearts
crushed by boys
who are not their daddies
but somehow, they are

daughters know daddies
may not always make it so

daughters never understand daddies
who just have to go...