Daughter

In vivid black and white

I am strained to tell which parts are what

Pictured

You’re nestled warm and safe

Striped grays, a bending black trapezoid

Conscious

You swim about my wife

Unknowing, flinching with innocence

Anxious

You are too beautiful

How can I hold purity as this

Moving

Your tiny hand waving

These absolutes I now will cling to

Twisting

A monument of love

Forever I will belong to you

Nothing

Till now has shaped me so

I am here made new again with you

Daughter

Intangible clutches

My heart gripping you, through black and white

Holding

The hand I see will pull

Drag me where you’ll lead, I wont let go

Loving

My daughter taking shape

I have no more words that could convey