To My Daughter
By FlatDaddy
Right now you’re busy growing toes
and limiting your mother’s wardrobe —
a tiny sailor floating in your own private sea,
the only creature in your world.
And yet, tonight, you are surrounded by friends,
Good friends who bring you your first gift.
And what a gift it is: the gift of music!
Music from their hearts, given freely to welcome your arrival.
How marvelous and fitting it is that you,
the child of an actor and an artist,
are ushered into life by such a shower of creativity and joy!
You will not remember this night —
but you will hear the story many, many times.
And, perhaps, years from now,
you may catch yourself humming some unfamiliar,
but strangely comforting tune —
and you will know its origin,
and you will smile.







