Trista Dawn

A child is born with her mothers beauty and fathers strength inside.
The moment I saw her I lost my heart gave it to her and cried.

To see her settled in her beautiful mothers arms.
Cradled and safe from all of the worlds harms.

To see her play with nothing at all and love away her day.
Hearing I love you mom and dad the best thing she could say.

The first time she stepped and marched on forth into her life.
Stubborn and strong just like her parents brave against all strife.

To walk her to school and see that look of momentary fear.
Those precious moments of letting go that we all hold dear.

Life goes on and as she grows you see her smiling face.
That love for all that stubborn streak that cannot be replaced.

Her first boyfriend that moment were you get to torture the boy.
Expressing that she's daddy's little girl and showing she isn't his toy.

She has a prom you find the shoes and the absolute perfect dress.
You take her out and find it all the parents hopeful quest.

You let her go into the boys care and trust she will be OK.
You have worried your self sick thinking of this day.

She goes to college does real well and the degree holds all it's glory.
This is not the end as some may see but the start of her own story.

She finds a man that wins her heart he smiles as he is down on his knee.
Will he know without a doubt what she means to me?

A flash of time and in the hospital room where a child soon will be.
You and her mother standing tall and proud at the woman you both see.

She is our blessing our tie that binds and holds us together through time.
She never made it to her birth and that is a great and tragic crime.

I listen to music and write these words and into space i try not to stare.
When I would gladly have traded my life for hers it's cruel and so unfair.

I never held her mothers hand when she entered this earth.
I never got to share with the world the announcement of her birth.

Her new and wondrous eyes as she gazed upon her dad.
The most precious little girl that I have never had.