For my daughters!

Edvard Munch "Mother and Daughter"

I was given the task to write down, what I like about my daughters. For some reason, I found it very difficult putting my feelings and emotions into "normal" words.
So I decided to write a poem. Here is the first draft. What do you think?

A Smile, a hug, a tender kiss

Is all I need to make my day.

I sometimes wonder what it is,

that makes you special in that way.

You drive me nuts, you drive me crazy,

when you don’t listen, you don’t care

You trash you room and you are lazy

don’t brush your teeth and knot your hair

But most of all you make me love you

with the simplest, strangest things.

Like when you made that oddly goo

and called it breakfast in the mornings.

Or when you sing your songs off-key,

so loud, it nearly breaks the glass.

You mean so much, and all to me,

more every day that comes to pass.

You lay in bed diagonally,

have a peculiar sense of style

You share you sweets with me quite fairly

and you are weird once in a while.

You rub your eyes when you are tired,

you bite your lips when in despair,

you pick your nose, oh so inspired

and round your finger twist your hair.

Your lips, your eyes, your hair, your nose,

your every fibre of your being,

makes you, you and I suppose

that it’s the things that I am seeing,

that warm my heart and make me think,

that even though you tick me off,

I am afraid sometimes to blink.

For should I miss, a smile, a cough,

I would have missed something profound.

And that, my dearest daughter mine,

I do not want. My heart is bound

to you, my love. Your smile does shine

Now and for all eternity!