A Daughter's Love Poem by Cilene Farrell

A daughter's love begins
with curiosity at the elusive stranger
who leaves at dawn, returns before dusk.....
with kind words and a promise of safety and dreams.

Evolving in time to a thing petulant,
torn between love and a desire to hate.
What was once and can no longer be
a relationship built on pure stability.

Fathers beware of the statute of limitations,
Acknowledge the growth of your daughters with care.
For one day you'll look and it just won't be there......
instead you'll be subject to disappointed stares.

Don't choose to believe that she'll always be
willing to love you like that, unconditionally.
The day will come when that bond will erode
unless you earn the right to call her
'Daddy's little girl.'