Eighteen

Eighteen

I must take you on a journey

But I am allowed to go with you

This time…

 I will cherish

Precious moments before your departure

Grown and leaving, as you must

But for a few hours, you are mine

In a car, driving to the mundane

But together,

Exquisite simplicity of fate

My no-longer-a-child

My beautiful woman

But not yet, these last fleeting

Seconds before you go on

Alone to your Destiny, creating a Life

Of incredible beauty

Let me share the end of your childhood

Before your inevitable Beginning

Not yet, Yet Always

My heart, My Daughter