For Taylor, now thirteen

[xundedx]

For Taylor, now thirteen

You look nothing like your mother.
I shouldn't have said it
but I saw you standing there
a woman, beautiful, smiling,
a superficial shyness pulling your strings,
and I had planned to say
You look just like your mother!
and I searched your face and found
nothing familiar to cling to
and so it slipped and so
did the hope, a little, from

Comments

[malgrin]

I love this and I feel it.