J.M.

Moniga
Ms. Noyce
B5
16 September 2014
The Innocence
The Future
I have a daughter
She spins through life-
BUT as Im getting older
Ill always be watching
As she grows older and I reflect,
Because life is like a mirror
I turn to her and say,
For I only have enough love for you

Then she met a man that could take care of her.
Now my momma always told me
Life is like a box of chocolates
You never know what youre gonna get.
The man flipped and he flapped and he bellowed so loud-
I said
Anothers. She will be anothers. Like my kisses before.
She will get tired of them.

And yet he thought he saw the scene:
The dreadful scene
Full of deep blue
Her lips are ridged and fleshy
He was a child and she was a child
And like a child
You grow up
So
He left.