Sonnet I

A kiss from the sun on a killer hot day

Hot dog in hand, and shades on my brow

My sunscreen is on, swimsuit for the bay

Look at me – if my friends could see me now!

No longer a babe in the swaddling clothes,

I’m grown up now, with the body to show

No stumbling walk, no more ribbons and bows

With a date every night (tonite is Joe)

But through it all, you have to remember

My play in 3rd grade, my smile at ten

The gleam in my eye every December

What I wouldn’t give to have that again!

Just a daddy and his plain little girl

Who will always be his, despite the world