> Thank you for: > > The moon and the stars. You said I could reach them. > Showing me how to catch a butterfly and the reasons to set it free. > Knowing the answers to questions of meaningless things. > Protecting me from the monster under my bed. Knowing it was a > shoe. > Listening to my stories about nothing at all. Laughing at my > jokes that weren't funny at all. > Coming along on my adventures both big and small. Real or > imagined. > Surrounding me with love when the world was so big. > Letting me fall and always being there to pick me up. > Watching me grow and giving me gentle pushes along the way. > Comforting me when no one else could. > Sharing your life experiences so I'd understand the person you became. > And finally letting me go and knowing I can always return. > > If I had known. Oh God, if I had known: > You would leave me so soon. > I would have given you those stars. But you can touch them now. > I have one more story to tell you can you stay a moment longer? > . > I'm sure there's another monster under my bed. Do you see it? > I need to hold you in my arms and surrounded you with all the > love I have. > > You have gone at all. > I feel your arms around me. I can smell your perfume. > Even now you still comfort me. > Listen to my stories. > You've snared that monster under my bed. I found that lost shoe. > I feel those familiar pushes along the way. Watch me grow. > > Because of you: > I can set a butterfly free. > I have the stars and the moon within my reach. > I can fall and stand on my own. > I am inspired to go on. > I will become the person I am meant to be. > > Thank you for sharing your life with me and I hope I make you > proud. > > With these thoughts in my head and my heart. I blow you a kiss > and tell you I love you. I hope you can hear me. > > Love > your daughter. |