Daughter Poem by Anshuman Sharma

Soft like rose
With small toes
Innocent like mist
With a pink bangle on her wrist

She has the beauty of a princess
For her it is easy to impress
Her heart is clean as water
This is the definition of a daughter

Once she was not visible
But not completely invisible
She could be felt in heart
Living inside me as body part

One day she was ready
To make a person her daddy
Filling a family with happiness
With her constant activeness

The way she looked at me
With her head on my knee
It made me cry
With her innocent eye

She had love in her eyes
Which still gives me highs
She wanted to see the beautiful world
Which could be called a dream world

It was tough to send her to school
But it was necessary too
I wanted to make her sharp
So that she could identify scarp

Her mind was growing fast
It was becoming deep and vast
She was glowing and shining
Getting ready for her task in designing

She was becoming bigger
Regularly making her cloths shorter
Soon she would wear my shoes
Making items difficult to choose

She makes me proud
That she can move the crowd
With depth and width of her questions
Never influenced by suggestions

Now she does not need any support
She can raise pillars in assort
She knows the right and wrong
And has the ability to stand strong

Her mind is a fast machine
That she can turn any scene
She is a doer
With her actions grandeur

Powerful voice comes from her lungs
With certainty and truth to break drums
She could connect with each
With her simple speech

I know the world was waiting
To bring hope and end suffering
People rejoice and celebrate
As she can make anything accelerate

I know she has the power
The strength, the confidence, the flower
She is competent and willed
To win the world and rebuild

Now I can set her free
Even in the open sea
To build a life of her own
By leading people without any throne





Nilam Pathak