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