Watching in Wonder

While he watches


She's in  white tulle,

on pointe, reaching

for whatever

and finding herself.


He returns from work


to find her waiting,

and then she whispers

"Wishes" at the flames

of twenty-one candles.


And he wakes to find her


waiting in white

to walk the aisle

on Daddy's arm

at her wedding.


She becomes a wife


as they cut

a whimsical cake

with winged dragonflies.

And she's taken flight.


Leaving him to wonder


where the years went

as he smiles down into

the wrinkled face of

her newborn daughter.


And he watches


her in white tulle,

on pointe, reaching for

whatever.


© 2010 Tamera Dobbins