She’s getting ready for her big day.
You only graduate once,
Is what she hears everyone say.
Yet, her heart isn’t in it,
She doesn’t feel like smiling.
It just doesn’t quite fit.
She knew it’d feel impossible does she want to do this – never,
Because, it’s always looming during big events!
It will be so, always and forever!
She should have been there,
To pick out the dress, to find perfect shoes,
When getting her nails done, as well as her hair.
A girl wants and needs her Mommy around,
And when she’s not, it feels wrong!
Like something is off, there’s no steady ground.
She steps into her shoes and wobbles a bit.
Mom would have laughed and steadied her.
She would have asked,”did you practice it?”
These are the times she needs her most!
These are the days her absence fills the room…
These are the moments she would have made a toast…
About her clumsiness and laughed and laughed…
But she’s not here to hold her up or make her laugh.
Sudden vertigo makes her almost fall- no mom there as a safety raft.
She pulls Herself together and enters the room.
Her dad looks nostalgic, he sees her in me…again.
“I’m sorry dad”she says loud as a boom.
He says,”Baby you’re beautiful and she would be proud.”
But she doesn’t feel comfortable,
Just awkward and loud.
She feels a slight breeze, “Mommy” she says.
It flows all around her then is gone.
She truly believes, she has her ways.
“I miss you Mommy, oh so much”
The breeze caresses her cheek and disappears.
“Thanks for coming Mom, I love you too!”
“Who are you talking to” her dad asks.
“Oh, just myself. Dad? I love you!”
They leave together, younger sister trips in her shoes.
“I felt her today” she stands back and whispers to her sister.
There dad waves, “Coming!!” She smiles at her little sis,”yes, I know me too!”
She steps out the door, with dignity and grace.
Ready to do this. Feeling much better.
Her dad doesn’t know why it’s there, but he loves the smile on her face!
JKC
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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”